Hello,<br><br><br> Maemo is ~4 years old. And there is no good tool to create help files (for OSSO Help Framework, "ossohelpsource")<br> for Maemo applications has been created since 2005. Some might agree with me, some mightn't,<br>
but it is not a micro problem. It makes an obvious obstacle for people with non-technical background to contribute to Maemo: <br> there are no easy ways to write help documentation for applications (which are shown in Maemo via Help Manager/application).<br>
<br> I've found (more detailed is here: <a href="http://blog.thekondor.net/2009/04/why-help-writing-for-maemo-applications.html" target="_blank">http://blog.thekondor.net/2009/04/why-help-writing-for-maemo-applications.html</a>) at least<br>
three major problems with help documents authoring for Maemo applications:<br><br> 1. Awful OSSO Help format description<br> 2. No abilities to validate/check written help (no schema files, like DTD or XML Schema)<br>
3. No good user-friendly and simple tool available for people with no experience with XML.<br> <br> So I spend some time to improve this situation and developed a kind of solution which I'm pleased to announce.<br>
<br> Since Syntext Serna WYSWYG (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntext_Serna" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntext_Serna</a>) xml editor is free as beer, I wrote a plugin for Serna<br>
to add support of OSSO Help format. This plugin delivers abilities to create and edit Maemo help files (usually located in /usr/share/osso-help) in WYSIWYG mode. I hope this allow members of Maemo communtiy to write good help documentation<br>
for theirs favorite applications in easy way.<br>
<br> Plugin's homepage is <a href="http://thekondor.net/osso-help-plugin" target="_blank">http://thekondor.net/osso-help-plugin</a> -- there you can find some documentation, screenshots and plugin itself.<br> Serna Free edition for most common platforms can be downloaded here: <a href="http://syntext.com/downloads/serna/" target="_blank">http://syntext.com/downloads/serna/</a><br>
<br><br> Your suggestions, ideas and bug-reports are welcome.<br><br><br><br>Regards, <br>-- <br> Andrew Sichevoi<br> <a href="http://thekondor.net" target="_blank">http://thekondor.net</a><br>