IMO it is not needed in *quick* translation guide. Maybe it's worth documenting in DocsProject wiki, as help not only for translators, but for everyone who wants to build any guide with Publican?

How about to point the sections (3.1 & 3.5) of this book with a little description such as?
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/Publican/index.html

To proofread a document created by Publican;

1) First install packages required for build the document.
Please follow "Installing Publican" section of "Publican Users Guide".

2) Build the document in html. Please follow "Building a Book" section of "Publican Users Guide".

Rudi, if this Users Guide may change the location, please advise.

The basic problem is that Sandeep's and Noriko's instructions will not work for the Fedora documentation in the repositories at the moment. The files that translators are contributing through Transifex need a lot of processing before you can build them in Publican. The actual process looks more like this:

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1. Check out a copy of the f11-tx branch of the source:

git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/docs/user-guide.git
git branch --track f11-tx origin/f11-tx
git checkout f11-tx

The directory that you download should have the following structure:
-- a directory named "en-US", holding the English XML files
-- a directory named "pot", holding the .pot files that correspond to each XML file
-- Publican's Makefile
-- a directory named po, holding a file named LINGUAS, a file named selinux-user-guide.pot that was created by merging together the contents of the pot directory, and the merged po files for various languages including it.po
You can see this structure clearly in, for example, the repo for the Fedora User Guide: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=docs/user-guide.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/f11-tx;hb=f11-tx (ignore the es-ES directory for now)

2. add OTHER_LANGS = it-IT to the Publican Makefile if it isn't already there (or add it-IT to this line if OTHER_LANGS is already enabled for languages other than Italian). You can see an example of a well-populated Publican Makefile in the Fedora Installation Guide here: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/docs/install-guide.git?p=docs/install-guide.git;a=blob_plain;f=Makefile;hb=df349fa845ffbecaa597a4839d83c85228a63bbb

3. install the publican-fedora package (which will also pull in publican itself)

4. In this document's directory (that is, the folder that contains the Makefile and the various directories listed in step 1 above), run "make update-po-it-IT". This will create a directory named it-IT and a set of .po files ready to translate into Italian. (The es-ES directory that you saw in step 1 above was created in this way)

5. run the following  short script to update Publican's po files from the merged po file:

for POTFILE in pot/*.pot; do
       msgmerge po/it.po ${POTFILE} | msgattrib --no-obsolete \
> $'it-IT'/$(basename ${POTFILE} .pot).po
done

For other languages, replace "it.po" with the name of the merged po file for your language, and "it-IT" with the name of the Publican directory for your language

6. run "make html-single-it-IT" to create the document as a single html file. The output will appear in the tmp/it-IT/html-single directory.

On subsequent runs, you will be able to start at step 5.

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Once Fedora's Transifex is updated to version 0.6, most of this will become unnecessary, and instructions like Sandeep's and Noriko's will work. 

When the new version of Transifex is in place, we can also update the "Creating Common Files" section to point to Publican's "Common Content" sections.

I don't think all translators can follow this instruction.

At the moment, building test docs in Publican from po files submitted through
Transifex is a long, complicated, and error-prone process. 

Furthermore, with both Publican and Transifex moving to new versions soon,
anything that we wrote about this in the TQSG will be irrelevant in the near
future.

For now, if translators want a document for proof-reading, ask on the
fedora-docs-list or in #fedora-docs and someone will help you. 

Please re-open this bug when Publican 1.0 is released *and* Fedora's Transifex
instance has been upgraded to version 0.6.

*** Bug 521701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reopening.  Fedora's Transifex 0.7.4 is about to go to production, and Publican 1.5 (?) is out now.

Once the infrastructure freeze ends (around 2010-03-10) the new Transifex should be able to go into production, at which point one of the translator leaders can check the series of steps and use them to make an appropriate update of the docs.

Rudi, thank you for taking this task!

With Publican 2.0 building and publishing is easier and documented in appropriate documents. There is no need to keep this information also in TQSG.