Mods to Guide that link to future Help mods

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 6:32 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Is it OK if I put a link to Help into a Guide feature branch when the Help
> section does not yet exist?
> 
> I intend to do the Help mod referred to very soon but I'm not sure if
> 
> a)      This is acceptable by committers
> 
> b)      This will cause overnight build to fail or some other problem
> 
> 
> 
> The type of link I intend to use is like:
> 
> 
> 
> <ulink
> url="https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v&series-stable;/C/gnucash-help/tool-lots.
> html">
> 
>   Help Manual, Chapter 8 Tools & Assistants, Lots in Account
> 
> </ulink>
> 
> 
> 
> I decided on this type of link rather than ghelp as ghelp doesn't work on
> Windows (for me at least - it seems to me this is not possible on Windows),
> 
> and using &series-stable; enables the link to be always to the current
> stable release (I have tested this works).
> 
> 
> 
> Or would it be better if I removed the link from the initial guide mod & did
> a separate pull request for just the guide link to Help after the Help mod
> is committed?

I think that it's probably best to leave the link out until you get the help content in place. I guess the ideal would be a link that looks like the one above in the online docs and is correct for other html, windows help, and ghelp.

Regards,
John Ralls