Hello Travis Thanks for your efforts in the Help. The current Help development cycle requires indeed a full build. I have nevertheless some shortcuts to offer.
A XHP editor is available to test and edit a Help file and render the page. It is still work in progress but IMHO (false modesty) it serves quite well to address small to medium changes in the XML. The instructions are in the page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DocumentationHelpEditor Since you cloned the Help repo, you can open a cloned Help file from the editor File menu and edit it, then save it. Another way to edit Help files is by editing/patching the Help file directly in Gerrit (a friendly service on top of git), as explained in the page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/GerritEditing Now with these 2 tools you can do a patch and play with the 2 together: You can edit a Help file in the XHP editor and do all checks (<-Important!). On another tab of your browser you can open the same file in gerrit editor (this time the file is in the repository). The good thing is that you can copy&paste from XHP editor to gerrit (and vice versa) as they are pure text and both services use the same editor (codemirror). This way you don't have to do command-line git wizardry and you can submit the patch from gerrit. I advise to read carefully the instructions of the wiki page, including the references to the XHP tags. Kind regards Olivier Em 29/09/2020 19:09, Travis Stewart escreveu: > The instructions I found for building help pages are on this wiki page - How > to verify changes > <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Help#How_to_verify_changes>. > But they force me to build LibreOffice to produce the help, which takes a > long time. My first build hasn't finished yet. Furthermore, I see it clones > the help repository when I build with -with-help=html/online option, so I > guess I need to push my changes before I can test them. Is there a way to > build the help separately, so I can make changes to my local repo and test > them before I push the changes to Gerrit? > > Thanks, > Travis > > -- Olivier Hallot LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-03:00 LibreOffice – free and open source office suite: https://www.libreoffice.org Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data http://tdf.io/joinus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
