On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:49 PM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> > But the HelpBrowser is read only at the moment. (Some skeleton methods
> exist for writing documentation)
>
> I uploaded a lot of stuff concerning this to the inbox last year. Unless
> you want to achieve something very fancy, you do not need to descend into
> the System Browser any longer. Creating, removing, renaming, and editing
> topics is all possible via the HelpBrowser. Moreover, with Morphic-ct.1587,
> you can even insert images without writing code. :-)
> The changes are still waiting for anyone who has some time to review and
> eventually merge them.
>

Wow, lots of stuff here.  Not sure I understand all of it.

Do you have a short description for creating a new help topic  after filing
in all the changes ? :-D

Best,
Karl

>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
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> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. September 2020 15:24:06
> *An:* gettimothy; The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] I just purchased squeakbooks.com and .org
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> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:29 PM gettimothy via Squeak-dev <
> squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> I am going to try to recreate books.pharo.org using those domains, but
>> for Squeak as part of my Doc/SeasideDoc project.
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>> I am NOT trying to make money for myself, I am just trying to solve the
>> Squeak documentation problem.
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>> I will be building the site with Seaside on Squeak and I will be studying
>> the Pharo model for their documentation creation to see if it is
>> appropriate for squeak.
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>> Motivation:
>> http://books.pharo.org/booklet-Scraping/html/scrapingbook.html
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>> That is an example of the type of documentation I frequently use as a
>> developer. How do I accomplish a specific task, where do I start, what are
>> the conceptual "things" I have to think in.
>>
>> I will be using that documentation to get myself familiarized with the
>> Squeak XML stuff as I will need it for processing xml documents of 10's of
>> millions of records.
>>
>> I will be happy to give the domains to the squeak community when/if the
>> project is solid.
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>> Once the stubbed website is up, I will attempt to create a
>> live-round-robin model from the squeak image.
>>
>> Open a workspace, open a book (book content comes down from website)
>> add/edit content within the workspace, save it live to the website (and
>> concurrently to the image ?)
>>
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> It would be a really nice addition to be able to write "how to's" and
> documentation in an almost literal coding style within Squeak.
>
> The HelpBrowser has the ability to pull down content from the Squeak Wiki.
> And we have added inlining pictures in it:
>
> http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-MonticelloConfigurations-mt-160-mcz-td5115112.html#a5116431
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> But the HelpBrowser is read only at the moment. (Some skeleton methods
> exist for writing documentation)
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
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>> Hopefully it will be useful and we can start crowdsourcing documentation.
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>> cheers,
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>> tty.
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