where put font forge docs?

2013-12-10 Thread Murray Eisenberg
I’ve installed the port fontforge @20120731_2. Now I want the Help to call local help files. Following instructions at http://fontforge.org/source-build.html#Documentation, I put the downloaded, unarchived documentation at /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge. But still, after starting fontforge

Re: where put font forge docs?

2013-12-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com wrote: I’ve installed the port fontforge @20120731_2. Now I want the Help to call local help files. Following instructions at http://fontforge.org/source-build.html#Documentation, I put the downloaded, unarchived

Re: where put font forge docs?

2013-12-10 Thread Murray Eisenberg
I suspected it would be somewhere in /opt/local. Thanks! Looking further, I see in the fontforge app’s File Preferences menu item window an entry for HelpDir that’s set to default, in fact, to: /opt/local/share/fontforge/doc/fontforge So that’s where I unarchived the docs, and now I do get

Re: where put font forge docs?

2013-12-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 10, 2013, at 11:47, Murray Eisenberg wrote: I guess it’s “tidy” to keep the docs within /opt/local/share/fontforge, but what will happen on a version upgrade? will they be left unaffected (I would presume)? MacPorts will not touch files it did not put there, so they should remain

Re: where put font forge docs?

2013-12-10 Thread Murray Eisenberg
On Dec 10, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Dec 10, 2013, at 11:47, Murray Eisenberg wrote: I guess it’s “tidy” to keep the docs within /opt/local/share/fontforge, but what will happen on a version upgrade? will they be left unaffected (I would presume)?