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Table of Contents
Welcome to the GIMP-Help team!
This tutorial is intended for writing documentation. If you want to translate the documentation or the user interface, please go to "https://l10n.gnome.org/teams/xx" where "xx" is your language code: ISO 639-1 language codes can be found at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php.
You can join our mailing list at https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list. Please, feel free to ask questions.
The GIMP help Manual is lodged in a central repository at http://git.gnome.org. Creating a local copy of this repository to work on makes sure that everyone can work on his own without fuzzing around into works of other contributors.
As a newbie, you will access the git repository anonymously (without an account). Open a terminal and type: git clone git://git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2.
If you have a GNOME account, the command is: git clone ssh://yourusername@git.gnome.org/git/gimp-help-2 .
This will create a “gimp-help-2” folder in your current directory. Be patient! That's a big download: about 700 MB.
After downloading your local copy, run: cd gimp-help-2 then ./autogen.sh --without-gimp.
When running ./autogen.sh, you can notice some not found packages, for example “checking for dblatex... no”. Most of them are related to PDF files and you have to install them before running ./autogen.sh again if you want to create PDF files.
