Re: Two questions about HelpViewer

Patrick Cardona wrote:
> While working on a localized release of the User Guides I made first
> in English to be read  within HelpViewer (i.e.: 'AGNoStep User Guide',
> 'GWorkspace User Guide') I noted this issue: despite .xlp files are
> known as xml format, UTF-8 characters are badly rendered.

See the Debian patch [1] to the helpviewer.app package.  Perhaps there
is a better way, though, and that's one of the reasons why I haven't
sent it to Riccardo yet.

> 2) What the Bookshelf button is expected to do? Opening a FileViewer
> window in some place? How to set the path, while the 'preferences'
> menu item is grayed? Is there a canonical place I should use to put
> into .help files?

It's not implemented yet; I think it's supposed to show a list of all
manuals installed (akin to info's dir file).

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/helpviewer.app/0.4-2/debian/patches/utf8-help.patch