Hi,
On 11/18/08 11:06, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Frank,
Frank Peters wrote (18-11-2008 10:11)
At the OOoCon I was in a small group with some ideas about it.
The project is on hold, there were some ideas but we came against
some obstacles, both technical and legal that needed to be resolved.
If I find some time, I'll write it up and post it to the alias,
maybe you have some ideas how to overcome the obstacles.
Might be, if I know them ..
So, basically, it is desirable to connect application help
and help content living online but we haven't found a solution yet.
The ideas we were talking about:
- choice for user to install local Help or not (just because people like
to work offline as well);
- when local Help is available: offer extra online as choice (if
available);
- when no local Help is available: of course offer online
the main technical challenges to get the OOo Help online may be these:
current Help is context-sensitive in multiple ways: it knows the
application or module (as Writer, Calc, etc) in which you are, it knows
the OS platform, and it knows the current menu command or icon or dialog
box for which you want help. We need a way to pass this information to
the online files.
current Help files use a lot of inline switching to display different
contents with respect to the user's OS, the current module, and the OOo
versus StarOffice software. We must decide how to map these differences
to the web based files.
current Help files are extensively tagged with additional information,
most important are the paragraph_id numbers: all contents are to be
exported and re-imported to some translation tools.
to assure easy community collaboration, the online Help should be
available on the OOo Wiki. But we have no automatic processes yet how to
export and import contents to the Wiki and back to the installed files,
conserving all the tags.
And there is no decision what happens when a translated version gets
updated - currently the translation of Help contents is a one way from
English to other languages.
Just to name a few difficulties. Any ideas are welcome.
Uwe
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