Re: Making GNOME documentation suitable for different distros.

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

Danilo, Shaun, Malcolm, 

Thanks for your suggestions regarding making documentation suitable for different distros. I'd like to chew over your suggestions for a while with the team here at Sun. 

More later...

Pat

Danilo Segan wrote:
> 
> Ð?ана Ñ?Ñ?еда, 15. окÑ,обаÑ? 2003. 18:30:12 CEST, Pat Costello напиÑ?а:
> > The way we are planning to handle this scenario for the
> > manuals that the Sun team is looking after, is by putting all menu
> > path information in one place only. That way, the information can be
> > easily updated for use by different distros. In other words, you only
> > need to update one Help document, rather than dozens, if you want to
> > make menu changes in your distro. The place where we will put the
> > menu path information is in the GNOME Desktop User Guide, in a new
> > section. We will replace the menu path information in the individual
> > Help manuals with a reference to the User Guide.
> 
> How about using SGML/XML entities for this? I believe they're just the
> right thing, and it should work for you without adding a new section,
> and it would work for every document in Gnome help system, if it
> includes eg. "&filerollermenupath;" or "&eogmenupath;".
> 
> I belive this is far superior for users from using a simple "see
> there".
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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