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+===========================
+End-user Odoo documentation
+===========================
+
+Building requirements:
+
+* Python 2.7
+* recent `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org>`_
+
+After checking out, at the root of the documentation just type ``make
+html``, the HTML content will be built to ``_build/html/index.html``.
+
+Edition
+=======
+
+For simple edition (typo, just add paragraphs of text without markup),
+the Github web interface can be used directly.
+
+For more complex edition, to add images or advanced directives, edit
+locally. **Do not commit if there are warnings or errors when building
+the documentation** fix them first. rST is fairly sensitive to
+whitespace and newlines (especially the lack of newlines). It's a bit
+annoying but it's not hard to learn...
+
+Importing existing documents
+============================
+
+For documents which already exist in an other format or in Google
+docs, it's possible to get a head-start by converting the existing
+document using `Pandoc <http://pandoc.org>`_. The main issue is that
+anything but trivial original documents will need fixing up (possibly
+lots of it) to get *good* rST (or possibly working rST at all).
+
+Example::
+
+  pandoc -f docx -t rst path/to/document.docx -o new_doc.rst --extract-media=.
+
+will convert ``path/to/document.docx`` to ``new_doc.rst`` and export
+all images to ``./media`` (and link them from the document). While
+there are issues with the exported document, it's much more convenient
+than manually re-typing the original.