[TYPO3-english] trouble with Sphinx manual, kickstart has disappeared

[Muriel le Pair]

Hi Xavier,

First of all thanks for your quick reply.

>> I'm trying to convert OpenOffice manuals (still don't understand what's
>> wrong doing it the good old way..) to Sphinx.
>
> It's getting trickier and trickier to get it properly converted since it
> needs to be converted for rendering as HTML and well... as you say it's
> "old", even if "good" (for you).

Struggling with Sphinx extension and the syntax it managed to get me 
grumpier and grumpier, so don't take it personal.
Why not just write HTML if you want it to be rendered as HTML..

>> So if I can't convert them I need to create a new manual, only the weird
>> thing is that the 'Kickstart' tab is missing. Has this feature been
>
> The "kickstart" tab is only shown if at least one extension is found
> without any manual as you can only kickstart a manual for an extension
> having no manuals. If you want a custom project, use the first tab, if
> you want to convert an existing manual, use the (last) tab. If you want
> to kickstart a manual anyway, even if an existing manual exists, well,
> quickest option is certainly to (temporarily) remove the existing manual.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.
I solved the problem by creating a dummy extension in the extension 
builder, and then copy the Documentation folder to the original extension.

This triggered some errors but I finally managed to get rid of them.

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kind regards,

Muriel le Pair