Mallard

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, Phill.

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> from looking at the wiki page[1] is it safe to assume that mallard is the
> system which us 'new comers'  need to learn so that lubuntu (and possibly
> xubuntu) can include help pages 'off-line'? I'm about to learn bzr and the
> joys of creating branches etc, but would like to know if this is the system
> that supports translations.
>
> Julien prefers that we do not use docbook format as it needs translating for
> each language and has asked that we use 'the same system as ubuntu does".
> Forgive me, as I'm a wiki guy and docs is pretty new to me. Does the
> off-line docs (i.e. on the ISO) use yelp, or am I incorrect in my basic
> assumptions.

The Ubuntu system docs do use Yelp and Mallard.

(I would expect that translating Docbok and Mallard documents would be
fairly similar, though.)

—Kevin Godby