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ovvldc
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 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject: Aquafying the help files |
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In the spirit of continuing Aquafication, it would be good to have the Help files in the native OS X help.
As a reminder, I filed bug 2268 and set it to Deferred.
I remember this thread on the subject a long time ago.
Perhaps someone out there with web knowledge can make this work?
-Oz
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Coming up with a method to translate the existing OOo custom help file format into Apple's format is well beyond our current project scope for the near future (and far). Jake had worked on this at some point but it's been abandoned for years.
I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it all work the "way it should", but it just will not be able to happen.
We really should start a wiki page for feature wishes so there's a place to tally them, even if Patrick and I don't forsee ever working on them personally 
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sardisson
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | We really should start a wiki page for feature wishes so there's a place to tally them, even if Patrick and I don't forsee ever working on them personally |
We could always add reasonable ones here 
Smokey
/verily, the wiki has a place for everything
//nothing new under the wiki-ship
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jakeOSX
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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actually there is already a wiki page for this:
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Help_Files_-_Developer
conceptually the process is easy. take the oo.o help files, which are XML and convert them to HTML 3.2. that's it.
in actuality it has been harder to implement. mainly because while my perl is pretty good, my XML leaves something to be desired. |
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pluby
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| jakeOSX wrote: | | in actuality it has been harder to implement. mainly because while my perl is pretty good, my XML leaves something to be desired. |
And will have to deal with the many runtime XSLT transformations on the XML. Lastly, you need to change all of the C++ code in OOo that uses help. In essence, I think you have to make a significant amount of change to the core OOo product to make this work.
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jakeOSX
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| pluby wrote: | | jakeOSX wrote: | | in actuality it has been harder to implement. mainly because while my perl is pretty good, my XML leaves something to be desired. |
And will have to deal with the many runtime XSLT transformations on the XML. Lastly, you need to change all of the C++ code in OOo that uses help. In essence, I think you have to make a significant amount of change to the core OOo product to make this work.
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you mean people would want it to work too??? sheesh!
=)
(what he said too)
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ovvldc
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| pluby wrote: | | And will have to deal with the many runtime XSLT transformations on the XML. |
Assuming the help content is static, I was thinking about doing the transformation at build-time rather than run-time. It would require changing the core help calls and refactoring the language packs, but would save runtime resources. However, I suppose the question is academic at this point.
-Oscar
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