Guide on Contributing to the Biopython Tutorial

Right now, it is hard to write content for the Biopython Tutorial because there is not much documentation on the tools and conventions used.

I can work on adding some of this documentation to Contributing.md, if that is the right place.

Good idea, a short entry in the contributing file would be sensible:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

There is documentation at the start of the Tutorial's main LaTeX file - although it does not mention there is a Makefile which is often easier on a Unix like platform:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/Doc/Tutorial.tex

Don't write too much - we are looking at moving all the LaTeX into reStructuredText and combining this with the API documentation under Sphinx - see https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/907

@peterjc This is what I have written so far: https://github.com/bganglia/biopython/blob/contributing-to-the-documentation/Contributing_to_the_documentation.txt

Perhaps it could be useful to people who are converting the documentation?

You're going into more detail than I would, but I see better what you had in mind.

How about calling this file Doc/Tutorial/README.rst or Doc/README.rst, and adding one line in the main CONTRIBUTING.rst file pointing there?

@peterjc Sounds good. I could take out some of the detail if you think it is appropriate.