Clay Leeds wrote:

> > What I have done with this is to show in a general way how to set the
> > key-value items in the configuration. Since they are all the same, it
> > doesn't seem to make sense to document all of them.
>
> Fine with me, although since there're only 3 or 4 different
> possibilities (I don't recall if there are others), it makes sense (to
> me) to provide an example of each.

True for the moment, probably not true for long.

> FWIW, the keys I am aware of are: baseDir, fontBaseDir, hyphenation-dir
> (shouldn't that be 'hyphenationDir', 'hyphDir' or 'hyphBaseDir'?). The

Probably. That's probably not going to get changed in the maintenance
branch, but will probably get fixed in the normal course of things with the
API changes coming in the trunk.

> fact that the latter is non-standard makes me think it would be better
> to provide an example for each. In my view, the best way to minimize the
> posting of FAQs to the list is to 'idiot-proof' (as much as possible)
> the userconfig.xml file itself, by giving as many examples as relevant.
> Practicing brevity in 'help' files may be counter-productive.

I *think* the way it is set up now will work fine. Part of what I am trying
to highlight is the massive *similarities* between the key-value entries,
which ought to reduce errors on another axis. I may be wrong. If so, we'll
change it later.

Victor Mote


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