Re: Help files

2000-07-31 Thread Garry R. Osgood
Rebecca Jean Pedersen wrote: I figured since everyone is talking help files I would just introduce myself. I'm on IRC as bex and I'm willing to help however I can. I'm somewhat new to gimp, so I won't be much good for writing new help files, but my education is in English, especially

Help Files

2000-07-31 Thread Rebecca Jean Pedersen
I'm trying to help Halcyon out a bit with the help files so I put up a section of my company's homepage for the project. address is http://www.solnet-data.dk/gimphelp/ If you are working on the project, please go get the template.html available on that site for use in making your docs. Thanks

Re: Docbook (Help files)

2000-07-31 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Monday, 31 Jul 2000, Kevin Turner wrote: [Kevin checks the latest mail. Now it seems we have a help template file in HTML. Okay. Uh-oh, it's under a non .gimp.org domain, Sven will frown about that.] The template includes "-" as a menu path separator. The problem with this is that it

Re: Docbook (Help files)

2000-07-31 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 07:40:12PM +0100, Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with this is that it suggests actually using "-" literally in the HTML, rather than the more correct "-gt;". There is nothing wrong with using "-" in html, except for some *very* outdated and *very*

Re: Docbook (Help files)

2000-07-31 Thread Nick Lamb
DocBook sounds fine to me presuming that the tools are validating (ie users who just type nonsense into their text editor will be rewarded with a screenful of errors) and so we get some decent structured documents, not the hacked-together nonsense you usually get when people write HTML. I don't

Re: Help files

2000-07-31 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Kevin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Format issue 1: DocBook or HTML? DocBook. It is the Right Thing(tm) and GNOME has already assembled a nice set of tools to handle it. I'm sure the the GIMP documentation team can use some ideas and conventions from the GNOME documentation project.

Re: Docbook (Help files)

2000-07-31 Thread Rebecca Jean Pedersen
im doing some editting as thiings are now, so the html isnt just "hacked together nonsense" it is being made coherant and valid. trust me. trust halcyon. and for those of you on the project... made a change to the template. same addy. http://www.solnet-data.dk/gimphelp/ as for it belonging