On May 20, 2013, at 5:22 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> working on the docs, I was wondering about the redundancy between e.g.
> /help/C/gnucash-help.xml and gnucash-help-C.omf. The latter is the Open Media 
> Framework
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Media_Framework_Interchange], which 
> contains some metadata like Author, Title, Abstract.
> 
> gnucash-help.xml contains:
>>      (Do not remove this comment block.)
>>  Template Maintained by the GNOME Documentation Project:
>>        http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp
>>  Template version: 2.0 beta
>>  Template last modified Feb 12, 2002
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp returns: 404 Not Found
> 
> So it seems, we missed something in the time after wilddev released 2.0.1 7 
> years ago.
> 
> Searching for .omf I found
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo
> 
> This again is marked as obsoleted by
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/NewDocumentationInfrastructure
> 
> But that contains the warning: Do not port to the new system if the 
> application still needs to run under GNOME 2. Yelp 2 does not recognize the 
> new help system.
> 
> So I think we should try to update our docs to the state described in 
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo
> 
> The advantage would be the omf file would be created by a template *.omf.in 
> and the recent content of the related tags in the main document.
> 
> The con would be the additional dependency on gnome-doc-utils for the make 
> process.
> 
> Any objections to work on this?

Gnome-doc-utils isn't a problem, but be careful not to reintroduce the 
scrollkeeper dependency nor to introduce a new
one on rarian.

Regards,
John Ralls


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