How to contribute ERPNext documentation[WIP]

1. What is the goal of this tutorial?

Add the sentence “Prepare your Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement” to ERPNext documentation.

Login to your ERPNext account, click on "Help" on top bar and click on "Documentation" under "Help".

Navigate to "Introduction" page.

In “Introduction” page you will see a list of things which ERPNext helps you do.

ERPNext helps you prepare your Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement, lets add this to the list.

2. Any Pre-requisites?

a. Frappe development environment in your local machine.

Please find below the links to guides on how to setup Frappe development environment.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Installing Frappé on Mac OS X
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Installing Frappé on Linux OS

b. Should have basic understanding of Git.

3. Documentation is written in plain text, right?

Its not plain text, its not code, its text written in a particular style called Markdown.

4. Where does the documentation come from?

There is a folder called “docs” in your bench folder and all the documentation is stored in this folder.

For example all the text on introduction page come from this file.

frappe-bench/apps/erpnext/erpnext/docs/user/manual/en/introduction/index.md