New generation of digiKam user manual is online...

[Gilles Caulier]

Le mer. 4 janv. 2023 à 08:03, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Le mer. 4 janv. 2023 à 02:30, 7mgte <7mgte at miniblue.net> a écrit :
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> > Gilles,
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> > Two comments:
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> >  The first note on the Database Settings page ( » Setup Application » Database Settings ; https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/database_settings.html) refers the user to the section "Introduction of digiKam Databases" for information regarding internal storage.
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> > Is the a way to put a hot link to take the user to the page?
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> To put a hot link between what and what ?
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> > Looking through the document, the only sections I found related to databases were '» Getting started » Database' and '» Maintenance Tools » Database Cleaning'.  Neither provided much in the way of details about the structure of internal storage.  Did I miss something?
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> Well, with this one:
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> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/database_settings.html
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> ... all is explained in detail.
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> In all cases, the documentation will be improved. Now as the
> ReStructuredText is so far more simpler than the DocBook dinosaur, it
> will be faster to provide mature documentation.
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> >  Does Sphinx/RestructuredText/DocUtils have any provision for directly generating an Adobe PDF file?  If so, that would be a nice option for downloading.
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> yes, it can but not natively. In fact, in background, to convert to
> another format, Latex is used somewhere...
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> By default EPUB is proposed de facto, not PDF. It's in my TODO list to
> add PDF target in the CI/CD

The Sphinx way to generate PDF is very limited. It's due to use Latex
in background. you can use Calibre to convert EPUB to PDF. I add a
section in at end of README file:

https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/blob/master/README.md

Best

Gilles Caulier