Hi Frank,
thanks for the quick answer
Frank Peters escribió:
Hi Ariel,
as you may all know, OpenOffice.org's Help system is going to be
extended to support extension's help:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensible_Help
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensible_Help_Project_Plan
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/help/ExtensibleHelp.odt
As extension developer I wanted to start studying how to write help
files, so I started downloading:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/online_help/OOo2HelpAuthoring.pdf.
My first beginner-questions:
* is there an ODT version of this PDF document? (I find PDF awful to
work with, Writer is more appropriated to notes, highlighting, etc.)
See below.
* as the doc. is from Feb 3, 2006, is it still true this sentence in
chap. 4 "Authoring Help With OpenOffice.org" : "You need
OpenOffice.org 1.1.x to use the help authoring environment. The
authoring environment
also is not yet compatible with OpenOffice.org 2.0"? Is it now
compatible with OOo 2.3.*?
No. The reason for that being that we developed and used that
environment only internally at Sun and I had a hard time migrating
that to 2.x since profound changes in macro handling and file format
(ODF instead of SXW). So basically, for now we're stuck with this
version.
Ok, so I also downloaded OOo_1.1.5_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz ... I guess
it will look like from the stone age. I will give it a try - anyway I'm
not afraid of writing XML ;-)
The extensible help feature is brand new. Would you be willing to
collaborate with us so we can see how the existing environment suits
your needs or where it needs adjustment? I would be happy to provide
you with any assistance that you need to get help files written
for your extension.
You count with the help I could give, just let me know how I can help.
For testing how it works, I thought about extending OOo Base on-line
help; see:
http://dba.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=3084
I was starting to read/studying how to do this, I thought this is not
yet implemented (it's meant for 2.4, I think). Is it ready to use in a
developer build?
* where can I download the filter package? I tried "from the
helpers/helpauthoring directory of the helpcontent2 CVS module", as
the document tells, but I didn't find them there (I browsed the CVS on
line and downloaded the whole tree with my CVS client, but this filter
package isn't there)
I apologize for the lack of up-to-dateness. I need to edit that
document. You can get the files from the documentation webpages
CVS module at www/online_help/helpers/helpauthoring. So it's
cvs checkout documentation/www/online_help/helpers/helpauthoring
The ODT version of the above mentioned guide is there as well.
Done, Im downloading it right now :-)
Thanks,
Ariel.
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