I was just thinking, because I just merged l10n40 from trunk and got very tired.
I think your idea of making it easy for translators and also documenters is real good. But you have spare cycles to spare for this, why not approach it differently and decouple the help system. Somewhere in the code (I dont know where, but you may know), the help system is called with an id. If we branch at that point to call a standard help system instead it would be decoupled. If you could do the decoupling, I can for sure help transform the current help into whatever format is required for a new help system. At the moment I burn cycles comprehending what happens, I dare not start thinking "why", I am pretty sure that with the same resource usage we could make a help system based on todays help standard. just my idea a saturday afternoon, where I see someone change the readmelicense.xrm and my parser broke. rgds jan I. On 25 October 2013 21:42, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 25 October 2013 18:33, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:36 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > On 25 October 2013 01:06, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > [top posting] >> > > >> > > never mind on this question. I found the answer -- I didn't do a last >> > step. >> > > >> > > Sorry for the noise. >> > > >> > >> > the makefiles in helpcontent2, are like good italian spaghetti, >> especially >> > the util directories, where parts of what was done in source is >> > overwritten. >> > >> >> >> ??? I need to take a closer look at what you're saying here...this is >> exactly where I stopped looking yesterday. >> > > tell me if I can help. In branch l10n40 you can see some of the changed I > had to do to make it work. My biggest problem was the .tree files, and the > fact that whereas most input files are in source some of them (index etc) > is in util for SOME not all of the parts. > > Let me know if I can help. > > rgds > jan I. > > >> >> >> > >> > I have integrated genLang here, but its on my list to strip the >> makefiles >> > down to what we use (today). >> > >> > rgds >> > jan I. >> > >> > >> Well, as it turns out, my "problem" is not solved. The jars I'm looking >> for >> "supposedly" get generated in the makefile in helpcontent2/util, >> but...still no jars. >> >> As per the old instructions, I got into helpcontent2 and just did a build. >> >> I'm trying to figure out what's required to just deal with the help files >> -- editing/seeing results -- apart from a complete build of the product. >> What I'm thinking is we might be able to kludge some simple config for >> users interested in just tech writing for this area. >> >> more later...after more trials >> >> >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > > I'm trying to find my way around the bundled help with AOO -- how to >> > put >> > > > stuff in, how to build etc to see changes. >> > > > >> > > > So, I made some changes and followed instructions for building in: >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/online_help/OOo2HelpAuthoring.pdf >> > > > >> > > > pp. 21, 22 >> > > > >> > > > This was building ONLY helpcontent2. >> > > > >> > > > Some things happened -- new zip files were created but not the .jar >> > files >> > > > FROM the zip files found in <openoffice4-location>/help >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > Can anyone tell me what needs to be built next to make this happen? >> > > > >> > > > I've done a bunch of searches on some of the makefiles etc but can't >> > > > readily find this. Thanks for any help on Help. :} >> > > > >> > > > -- >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > MzK >> > > > >> > > > “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, >> > > > Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” >> > > > -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > MzK >> > > >> > > “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, >> > > Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” >> > > -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, >> Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” >> -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax >> > >
