[IAEP] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Valerie

Flossmanuals is a wiki. Walter indicated that is where he was editing. It is the source of the help files, I think. Flossmanuals is where I would prefer to do editing. I was just replying to a request by Caryl in supplying this data.

Tony

> Question - Wikis are designed for collaborative writing with history
> and rollback. Would it be possible to have the "now-current" version
> of the Help live in the Sugar Labs wiki where it can be worked on and
> controlled?
> 
> It always makes me nervous when people are working on a "single"
> document that can have lots of copies floating around in the workers'
> personal working space. In a wiki world, everyone see the current
> version, who made changes and what they did. When it is time to
> package the Help into the zip for release, that version of the wiki
> document can be noted and included, in case it is necessary to go back
> to the "release" version.
> 
> Are there other considerations that necessitate the process you describe?
> 
> ..Valerie
> 
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:57:42 +1100
> > From: forster at ozonline.com.au
> > To: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org, Developers List <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity
> > � � � �on � � �Macs and PCs???
> > Message-ID: <201110260457.p9Q4vgtT008721 at smtp.ozonline.com.au>
> >
> > Caryl
> >
> > To edit the Help Activity in Windows
> >
> > #download the help sugar bundle
> > use this link - http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/4051/addon-4051-latest.xo
> >
> > #unpack the sugar bundle
> > rename help-13.xo to help-13.zip
> > open help-13.zip
> > copy the directory Help.activity to somewhere else
> >
> > go to its help directory
> >
> >
> > The images can be edited with Paint
> > The htm files can be viewed in a browser
> > The htm files are best edited with something like Frontpage but you can use Notepad or Wordpad if you like working with html
> >
> > Tony
> 
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