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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net> on 2018/08/21 15:56:46 UTC
Creating and Updating the Help Files
Do we have documentation anywhere on how to Create/Update the AOO help
files?
Regards
Keith
Re: Creating and Updating the Help Files
Posted by Matthias Seidel <ma...@hamburg.de>.
Hi Keith,
So far I (and likely some others) only "patched" the source. Basically
it is HTML 3.2.
But we have some code in source:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main/helpcontent2/helpers/
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main/helpauthoring/
Regards,
Matthias
Am 21.08.2018 um 17:56 schrieb Keith N. McKenna:
> Do we have documentation anywhere on how to Create/Update the AOO help
> files?
>
> Regards
> Keith
>
Re: Creating and Updating the Help Files
Posted by "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>.
On 8/21/2018 6:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:45 AM Keith N. McKenna <ke...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 8/21/2018 12:02 PM, FR web forum wrote:
>>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Documentation/OnlineHelp
>>>
>>> ----- Mail original -----
>>>> De: "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>
>>>> À: dev@openoffice.apache.org
>>>> Envoyé: Mardi 21 Août 2018 17:56:46
>>>> Objet: Creating and Updating the Help Files
>>>>
>>>> Do we have documentation anywhere on how to Create/Update the AOO
>>>> help
>>>> files?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>>
>> Thanks for the link, but most of those do not describe the process in
>> any kind of detail. What I need is a process document that explains the
>> process in detail along with links to any tools needed.
>>
>> Regards
>> Keith
>>
>>
> The old definitive guide -- specification, etc. -- can be found from this
> area:
> http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/online_help/index.html
>
> Since I have added help files I will say that the process is NOT easy.
> Mostly because nearly ALL paragraphs are tagged with ids, and you must
> "create" these ids yourself. There was once a tool to use within AOO that
> was supposed to help but I never got this to work for me. The structure is
> difficult and seems somewhat arbitrary to me.
>
> The idea to port the internal Help to a different system/architecture was
> brought up almost at the outset of bringing AOO into the ASF but no one
> volunteered to do this.
>
> Anyway, good luck. I will try to be of help if I can. But, it's been a
> while ...
>
>
Thanks Kay. I had stumbled across that PDF while exploring some of the
other links. I will study it over the next few days and see if I can
figure it out.
I was reviewing some of the threads on re dev@ around options for
redoing the help system. I would be nice to see a more straight forward
system. I just don't have the background to do it.
Regards
Keith
Re: Creating and Updating the Help Files
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:45 AM Keith N. McKenna <ke...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 8/21/2018 12:02 PM, FR web forum wrote:
> > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Documentation/OnlineHelp
> >
> > ----- Mail original -----
> >> De: "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>
> >> À: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> >> Envoyé: Mardi 21 Août 2018 17:56:46
> >> Objet: Creating and Updating the Help Files
> >>
> >> Do we have documentation anywhere on how to Create/Update the AOO
> >> help
> >> files?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Keith
> >>
> >>
> Thanks for the link, but most of those do not describe the process in
> any kind of detail. What I need is a process document that explains the
> process in detail along with links to any tools needed.
>
> Regards
> Keith
>
>
The old definitive guide -- specification, etc. -- can be found from this
area:
http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/online_help/index.html
Since I have added help files I will say that the process is NOT easy.
Mostly because nearly ALL paragraphs are tagged with ids, and you must
"create" these ids yourself. There was once a tool to use within AOO that
was supposed to help but I never got this to work for me. The structure is
difficult and seems somewhat arbitrary to me.
The idea to port the internal Help to a different system/architecture was
brought up almost at the outset of bringing AOO into the ASF but no one
volunteered to do this.
Anyway, good luck. I will try to be of help if I can. But, it's been a
while ...
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
MzK
"Less is MORE."
Re: Creating and Updating the Help Files
Posted by "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>.
On 8/21/2018 12:02 PM, FR web forum wrote:
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Documentation/OnlineHelp
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>
>> À: dev@openoffice.apache.org
>> Envoyé: Mardi 21 Août 2018 17:56:46
>> Objet: Creating and Updating the Help Files
>>
>> Do we have documentation anywhere on how to Create/Update the AOO
>> help
>> files?
>>
>> Regards
>> Keith
>>
>>
Thanks for the link, but most of those do not describe the process in
any kind of detail. What I need is a process document that explains the
process in detail along with links to any tools needed.
Regards
Keith
Re: Creating and Updating the Help Files
Posted by FR web forum <oo...@free.fr>.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Documentation/OnlineHelp
----- Mail original -----
> De: "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>
> À: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Envoyé: Mardi 21 Août 2018 17:56:46
> Objet: Creating and Updating the Help Files
>
> Do we have documentation anywhere on how to Create/Update the AOO
> help
> files?
>
> Regards
> Keith
>
>
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