Hi Patrick,
Foreword:
Standard help system is in RTFD. So any GNUstep application gets by
default a simple RTF/RTFD display. Crude but simple: add the RTF. Just
configuration of resources, makefile and it works.
Secondly, work is ongoing, (actually completed in git) where one can
use HelpViewer and help files - looks neat. But HelpViewer still needs
work to properly handle chapter/subchapter navigation.
You can check in GWorkspace/Resources/English.lproj
On 2025-06-06 10:05:11 +0000 Patrick Cardona <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
Are already people working on this?
I don't know.
Or maybe you are waiting for a volunteer to write the new help?
Personally I am working on getting HelpViewer to a suitable state and
transition to it, but it is taking long. I wanted to avoid creating
full-help in RTF just to recreate it in HelpViewer later.
It might be useful to write short one-two paghe chapters instead of an
empty placeholders.
My guess:
Maybe we could use and extend the existent one from:
'GWorkspace User Guide' by Mr. Dennis Leeuw ?
Maybe with new screenshots (and so which theme to use?)
GNUstep of course :) :)
What is the document format wanted: only consistent with HelpViewer
(chm,
rtfd...)?
As said either RTFD or Help.
Ideally, one could i nthe meanwhile update Dennis' doc and then
"translate" it once.
Maybe a single source to convert (with pandoc?) to several desired
formats
(man, chm, html...)?
well, currently RTF/RTFD and helpviewer format (XML style). So either
you write an backend for pandoc for helpviewer or do it manually. I
would go for the latter.
How to facilitate future translations ?
Help Resources are fully localizable, but still one for each desired
language needs to be created. Right now, only English.
Riccardo
