Getting Started

Welcome! This section guides you through contributing to the Blender manual.

Blender’s manual is written in reStructuredText (RST), a straightforward markup language ideal for technical documentation. You can edit the manual either directly online or by using your local text editor.

All contributions are managed through a collaborative workflow on Blender’s development platform, projects.blender.org.

You have two options for editing the manual:

Online Editing

Contribute directly from your browser using Blender’s online editor. This is the simplest and fastest method, ideal for quick edits and corrections.

Local Editing

Edit manual files on your computer using a plain text editor. Files are synchronized with the online version through a repository, ensuring your local edits remain up-to-date.

Local editing also lets you build and preview your changes before submitting.

Dica

Local editing is recommended for larger contributions, major rewrites, or when you need to preview your changes before submitting them.