Hi,
On 01/29/09 11:10, T. J. Frazier wrote:
Excuse me if I'm getting a little confused, here. I'm envisioning a work
flow like this:
Developer list of functions includes (for example) "Zork Function".
Q: Does a page for that exist?
: No, -> list: "Pages we must write"
: Yes, update content as necessary.
: Q: Does the automated process index this page?
:: Yes again, fine; we are done with this item.
:: No, fix page title / attributes such that it will be indexed
automatically.
Iterate for all developer list items.
Run automated index process as needed.
The automated index seems crucial. Indexing as I suggested above will
make the list noticeably longer. And sort it more usefully, too.
excuse me now, but I'm getting confused, too. We are talking about the
installed help for BASIC, aren't we?
Updating the installed help is currently my task. Sorry, there is still
no direct way of editing possible for the community.
Currently, the community can improve the installed help files by
submitting issues or dropping me a mail directly or on this mailing
list. And the community can supply improved help files to the OOo Wiki,
as for example David King does since some time to improve the Calc help,
see
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Functions_listed_by_category
The Wiki is a very good place to add more helpful information than the
installed help can provide. The Wiki can be more up to date, images and
examples, even ODF documents can be included, and every user can add to
the Wiki pages.
We want to have all installed Help pages on the Wiki, too, in a process
that allows to copy new and edited contents back and forth. But there
are some issues to be solved first, so progress is slow.
Now you mentioned "indexing" for the installed help contents. There are
two types of indexing:
1. The index entries that you see at the Index tab of the Help Viewer.
These index entries are all inserted and maintained manually.
2. Creating the index for the full text search at the Find tab of Help
Viewer. This is done when the Help gets built, normally that is when the
whole OOo is built. It's a full text index, may be some stop words are
hidden from that index, I don't know because I need not know ;-)
Uwe
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