On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 10:30 +0200, Clayton wrote: > On 10/12/10 09:20, Nino Novak wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 08:58, Clayton wrote: > > > >> I think TJ's suggestion to add it to App A of the GSG is a good idea. > > > > just to throw in a question... > > > > I wonder whether it's worth the effort of rewriting info from the App > > Help. > > > > On the one side, the UG can be printed on paper nicely. On the other > > it's additional effort and rises the need of keeping the two sources in > > sync. > > > > Is there any possibility of using the App Help sources for generating UG > > text in an automated way? > > I talked to Uwe about this. He says that it's probably a whole lot easier to > simply copy/paste - once for each keyboard shortcut page from OOo on a Mac, > and > once from OOo on any other OS. > > The keyboard shortcuts help files are scattered in various locations within > the > help, and can be extracted out of the jar file. > The issue: http://documentation.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56321 > explains how the filename for a each application help page can be found. > > If someone is brave enough to parse the raw XML contained in the help jar > files > and separate out the various inline switches, it could be possible to extract > the information... but it's a fairly complex operation to do it this way.
Copy and paste is what we did for what's in the keyboard shortcuts chapter now, followed by some editing. But see my note on the "question about Mac versus other platforms thread" -- do we actually need that level of detail? --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
