A question (or three) about linking content between packages

Hi list,

Thought I might try this again, see if I can catch a different set of eyes
or something.

I'm trying to figure out how to link between a Help guide page provided by
one package and individual pages provided separately.

My closest attempt was to install a guide page in /usr/share/help/ and link
in subsequent pages from .local/share/help/, but when I tried that, opening
Yelp would _only_ show the .local page, and lose the /usr/ guide entirely.

I'm really not clear if this is breaking the spec, simply undefined
behavior (and where), or a Yelp bug.

Anyone have thoughts?

Thanks,
Nate

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:44 PM Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com>
wrote:

> Hello Mallard Nation,
>
> I'm rather new to designing Mallard books and I'm trying to spec out a
> proposed project. So I've got a couple of questions I'm hoping the
> community can educate me on.
>
> The core idea is to add help (in the form of individual per-package topic
> pages) to a set of desktop Linux packages so that you could visit the guide
> page and it will show you all the pages from whichever individual packages
> you happen to have currently installed.
>
> ...
>
As I understand it from the manual and a couple of tests, though, I can't
> have a guide page (e.g., /usr/share/help/installed-system-fonts/index.page)
> that automatically finds and links to HTML pages. Is that correct? If so,
> is there some workaround worth exploring?
> ...
> The second wrinkle is that, ideally, we'd also be able to do the
> equivalent for things installed in the user's home directory (that being
> the use case for a font manager app as well as what you get when
> downloading from Google Fonts and the like). So, if that user-mode
> installer copies help files into ~/.local/share/help/fonts-bar/ (from a
> downloaded .zip file, not via a distro package), what would be the best way
> to pick that up in the same help guide?
> ...
> But with some test files I played around with, I couldn't get that to work
> at all. Specifically, launching yelp on that guide (as above) shows only
> the ~/.local/ page, and drops the content in /usr/share/ entirely. That was
> on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 machine. It's possible there's something funky
> going on that I just haven't noticed yet, but I'm more concerned that I'm
> missing something crucial in the fundamental topic/guide/page/HTML
> architecture. If so, I'd certainly appreciate some help figuring out what
> it is.
>


-- 
nathan.p.willis
nwillis at glyphography.com <http://identi.ca/n8>
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