Help Authoring Extension

[Olivier Hallot]

Hi Kendy

Thanks indeed to you and Regina for the fix.

Regards

On 24/07/2015 18:06, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've spent some time today fixing the HelpAuthoring extension, and
> together with the Regina's fix (thank you, Regina!), I think it got to a
> usable state :-)
> 
>   https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Help
> 
> describes where to get it, and the basic usage.  More detailed user
> manual can be found here:
> 
>   https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/HelpContent
> 
> The .xhp's generated by the extension are now nicely formatted, which
> means that when you save a .xhp in the help repository, it will likely
> be a big diff the first time (due to the changed formatting - strings
> should be preserved); but from then on, the changes should be tiny, as
> the format will be much better defined.
> 
> Also the editing directly in LibreOffice seems to be neat & usable.
> There might be rough edges still - but I hope no blocker any more.
> 
> In other words - *no excuses* for not writing help any more ;-)
> 
> Please do use it, and if you experience trouble, either fix it yourself:
> 
>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/dev-tools/tree/helpauthoring/README
> 
> or let me know - the xslt that implements the export filter is trivial.
> 
> Would be good to start thinking of a workflow between the developers and
> the documentation team - I imagine developers could stub help for things
> they are developing, and the documentation team members would then
> finalize and de-hackerize that, but ideas how to grow the community of
> help authors much appreciated.
> 
> [BTW - if you are wondering about the editable wikihelp: no, I'm not
> abandoning the idea; but that is a long-term quest, and the help needs
> improving _now_.]
> 
> All the best,
> Kendy
> 
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Olivier Hallot
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