Re: Using yelp for doc writers

["Matthew East" <mdke ubuntu com>]

Hi,

On 28/10/2007, Adrian Custer <acuster gnome org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Yelp used to be the mainstay of my doc writing tools. It used to be
> possible to do:
>   cd gnumeric/doc/C/
>   yelp gnumeric.xml
> and get a view of the current state of my docs. I just tried this in the
> latest ubuntu (Gutsy, GNOME 2.20.0) and it's not working nor can I find
> a --file flag to pass to yelp.
>
> Has this functionality been disabled? Am I doing this incorrectly?

It's a known bug, you need to specify the whole path to the document,
rather than a relative one. So:

$ yelp `pwd`/gnumeric.xml

I'd like to see this fixed too, it was a useful functionality.

-- 
Matthew East
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