Hi Ariel,
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
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 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.
this is only needed when you want to do a lot of editing for existing
help files.
If you just need to edit or write a few paragraphs you can use any text
editor. Preferrably an editor with some XML syntax highlighting and
structural display.
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 OOo 1 software with filter and macros is intended to hide the "ugly"
XML from the authors of help text. As much as possible. For an
occasional writer of an extension help it would be too much of an effort
to setup that environment. Copy an existing xhp file to get the
structure, then change the contents and save with another name. Use CVS
to submit. That's much faster.
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
the current implementation of the extensible help does not allow to
replace or delete existing help pages. You can only add new pages.
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?
It is CWS ab38
http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?Path=SRC680%2Fab38 ,
not yet integrated, but should be soon.
Uwe
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