On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>> I have managed to build Gnumeric 1.7.10 here on Mac OS X, and most
>> everything seems to work, except the online help.
>>
>> When I the "Contents" item of the menu "Help", it just silently
>> fails. No errors/warnings are produced and no help displayed. The
>> menu items "Gnumeric on the web",
>> "Report a Problem" and "About" all work from the help menu (and is
>> displayed in the preferred Mac OS X web browser).
>>
>> I have scrollkeeper installed.
>>
>> Can someone tell me what command Gnumeric attempting to launch for
>> the help?
>
> The code is in
> goffice/goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.c : go_help_display
> and depends on how you've configured the help system. Are you
> building with a full gnome stack ? In which case it's likely
> defaulting to yelp through some indirections in libgnome.
Greetings,
If I may make a humble suggestion, it might be helpful to add Yelp as
a listed optional required package? I had no idea to even suspect it
(but I should know more about GNOME I suppose)
> As you can see we use .chm on windows. It would be best to use
> something suitable native on OSX rather than yelp. What do other
> application use ? The docs are formatted with docbook, we can
> generate html and chm right now, but something like pdf should also
> be possible if necessary.
I personally think HTML with maybe links to a PDF version might be
best, but you are correct, either HTML or PDF can be directly handled
natively in the users preferred application with the "open" command eg:
/usr/bin/open /tmp/output.pdf
or
/usr/bin/open /use/share/html/index.html
Thanks for the pointer, as soon as a made a wrapper I was able to
intercept the message!
So, I will just make a wrapper called 'yelp' that will do something
like:
/usr/bin/open `sed 's\ghelp:gnumeric\gnumeric.html\'`
Would you recommend that I use "http://www.gnome.org/projects/
gnumeric/doc/gnumeric.shtml"? Is there a tarball?
Thanks again,
Jeshua Lacock, Owner
<http://OpenOSX.com>
phone: 877.240.1364
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