I suspected it would be somewhere in /opt/local. Thanks! Looking further, I see in the fontforge app’s File > Preferences menu item window an entry for HelpDir that’s set to default, in fact, to:
/opt/local/share/fontforge/doc/fontforge So that’s where I unarchived the docs, and now I do get the locally-installed files. Evidently /opt/local/share/doc/fontforge would work, too, provided one changes the HelpDir preference. I guess it’s “tidy” to keep the docs within /opt/local/share/fontforge, but what will happen on a version upgrade? will they be left unaffected (I would presume)? On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg > <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’ve installed the port fontforge @20120731_2. Now I want the Help to call > local help files. > > Following instructions at > http://fontforge.org/source-build.html#Documentation, I put the downloaded, > unarchived documentation at /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge. > > But still, after starting fontforge from Terminal and using either the Fn F1 > key or the Help > Help menu item in fontforge, I get the on-line > documentation from fontforge.org instead. > > MacPorts uses /opt/local instead of /usr/local, so try > /opt/local/share/doc/fontforge. --- Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240 Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users