Moving help-topics-index.scm

[Jon Lapham]

Chris Lyttle wrote:
>>>Then we will really have documentation which is independent of the
>>>application. :)  In fact, you could even install newer docs without
>>>having to reinstall the main app (which is currently not possible).
>>
> Well actually you don't need to update the topics file in order to see
> the docs, just to skip to the topics/headings. Its entirely possible to
> install newer docs with an old topics file. Mind you, when we decided to
> go with this I wasn't thinking the topics would change a lot as the docs
> were filled in. Oh well, its better than having no one work on them.

Yeah, these changes I did involved moving chapters around, and changing 
their names.  :)

Hopefully the kind of stuff that won't get done all the time.

However... Derek and I have recently (post 1.8.5) been working on the 
text for a new Business Intro chapter.  This will require renumbering 
all the chapters from 11 on up.  This is the kind of stuff that kills us.

> The other thing here is, I planned that eventually the docs would be
> viewed in the Gnome-2 version of GnuCash through the use of the system
> wide 'yelp' help program and drop the independent help browser. How we
> hook into this is a subject for future discussion.

You know what?  I just found the GC docs using yelp on my RedHat9 
system.  It doesn't seem any different (yelp) than our independent help 
browser... except that it seems *really* slow.  Ah, progress!

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