--- On Thu, 7/7/11, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
... > > The macro package is available as an extension that can be > installed with the extension manager. It also contains the > xslt that is installed as an export filter. > Just wondering .. Is this where we use saxon? AFAICT, it's not a problem license-wise, (MPL with a commercial version available but it is not a run dependency) but it would be good to get rid of it. Pedro. > I only rarely worked with this help editor, but from these > occasions I > remember that it was a little bit awkward. > > > Mathias, you would know much better than I how > feasible it would be to > > use some kind of Writer window to display help. > Without making light of > > the technical problems, I am intrigued by lowering the > participation bar > > that far. Translators could work directly with .odt > files. Users could > > customize their own help, using Writer, and (we would > hope) send us > > their suggestions and improvements. > > You might think that using Writer to edit the help content > is a big > plus, but all that is used is entering text and formatting > through the > assignment of styles - nothing fancy, as the help content > file format > itself isn't very feature rich. So the learning curve for > other editors > should be quite flat. > > Anyway, I don't believe that this is one of the most urgent > problems to > solve. First we have to get the code and build it, later we > can look for > people willing to write help content. We should present > them the > alternatives (and something like DITA definitely would be > one to > consider) and ask them what they prefer. > > Regards, > Mathias > >
