[GNC] "Help"

Chris Miller cjm at tryx.org
Sun Sep 22 13:43:08 EDT 2024


Hi Jim, 

> What exactly did you install, and how? Did you install a flatpack
> package named "gnucash-docs"? Something via apt-get? MacPorts port
> "gnucash-docs" on macOS? One of the downloadable documentation files
> from <https://gnucash.org/docs.phtml>?
I am running Fedora. I tried the naive approach: "yum install gnucash-docs" which installed gnucash--5.8-1.fc40.noarch. I see lots of docs in /usr/share/help/<lang>/gnucash-[guide|manual], where <lang> = "de","ja","pt","zh", & "C". "C" appears to be English. These are all "DocBook" format, so I see one of two problems: 

    * /usr/share/help/C/gnucash-*/... Need to be rendered to a place and as a format accessible to the KDE Help utility 
    * GnuCash need to call a help utility that can handle the "docbook" XML format. 

In either case, there must be some way to declare where to find the "Help". So, I'm confused about what the problem really is. 

    * Have they not been rendered? 
    * Are they in the "wrong", meaning an "unexpected" place? 
    * Am I getting the wrong "Help" utility and if so, is there a better one? 

Thanks for the help, 
-- 
Chris. 


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