Re: Documentation format on a GNUstep desktop

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Nikolaus and Svetlana,

Within GNUstep echosystem, there is also HelpViewer.app :
But if You try to open HTML help files provided within the Documentation of 
GNUsep, f.e. :

pi@raspberrypi:/usr/share/GNUstep/Documentation/User/Gui $ ls
DefaultsSummary.html  GuiUser.igsdoc      LanguageSetup.html
dependencies          KeyboardSetup.html

You will notice that no file seems available from the Library or from the menu 
"file > open..."
thought such files are available in the filesystem.

Searching the description of HelpViewer.app from the Debian Package, I could 
read :

> "HelpViewer is an online help viewer for GNUstep programs.  It can render 
> files 
in the XLP format, although this format has been deprecated and only several   
packages still use it.                                                         
Site : http://www.roard.com/helpviewer/";

So, to replace XLP format, it would be nice to be able to read the help in HTML 
or maybe ePub formats
within HelpViewer.app, because opening a real Web Browser is wasting so much 
RAM.

-- 
Bien cordialement,
Patrick CARDONA
On 2020-06-08 11:30:49 +0200 H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:

> 
>> Am 08.06.2020 um 11:23 schrieb Svetlana Tkachenko 
>> <svetlana@members.fsf.org>:
> 
>> Thank you again - does storing static HTML pages locally without a 
>> webserver include the documentation search function? Example, 
>> <https://developer.apple.com/search/?q=test>
> 
> It depends. Search can be provided by the help viewer (Apple mentions some 
> generator for an index file) or it could be possible to add javascript to the 
> html.
> 
> Just a side-note: people are implementing everything to run local in a 
> browser using JavaScript. For example you can run Linux in the browser: 
> https://bellard.org/jslinux/ You can start it and then turn off your LAN 
> connection... I still wonder how it works.
>