[Scilab-Dev] Problem with the help

[Vincent COUVERT]

We decided to change the help browser for many reasons such as:
 - its look&feel under  Linux
 - it can't be used out of Scilab (you need to start Scilab to browse 
the help).

Moreover, switching to a standard system such as DocBook offers Scilab:
 - a lot of tools to generate Scilab help under a lot of formats such as 
PDF, PS, HTML without doing anything by hand
 - tools to edit the man pages: last example is the WYSIWYG editor Lyx
 - a DTD that can be used to write Scilab documentation (getting 
started, how to,...) and not only function help pages

The main idea is to stop developing things that just work in Scilab and 
to use standard tools.

Vincent

François Vogel a écrit :
> Thanks for your answers, Vincent.
>
> However you didn't say anything about why you change the help system. 
> What's wrong with the current help browser?
>
> Francois
>
>
> Vincent COUVERT said on 10/03/2008 09:01:
>> Hi François,
>>
>> The BETA release is still planned for the end of march or the first 
>> beginning of april.
>>
>> About the "new standard XML syntax": this work has been externalized 
>> and is about to be finished, then we will just have to integrate the 
>> new XML file (Docbook subset based) and the Java help browser in the 
>> TRUNK. All conversion tools will be available for Scilab users.
>>
>> Vincent
>
>

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