A quick update from the QGIS documentation team today on the mailing list. The QGIS 1.8 manual is now available in HTML and PDF form.
HTML manual can be found at:
http://docs.qgis.org/html/en/docs/user_manual/index.html
PDF manual at:
http://docs.qgis.org/pdf/QGIS-1.8-UserGuide-en.pdf
This has been part of an ongoing effort from the documentation team since before the 1.8 release to bring our all our documentation into reStructedText rather then LaTeX. Moving to reStructedText allows quicker updates and a larger range of final output formats.
I would like to thank everyone who has been involved in this process as I know what a grueling process updating documentation can be.
Community notice
Just remember you don’t have to be a programmer to contribute to an open source project. If you think you could contribute to the updating of the QGIS documentation please contact the team on the mailing list.
Nathan Woodrow 