Yelp and the FAQ Guide

[Sean Wheller]

On Saturday 06 August 2005 06:58, Jeff Schering wrote:
> On 8/5/05, Robert Stoffers <rstoffers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A recent update to Yelp in Horay at least has given it the ability to
> > display qndaset tags properly without crashing. This is good, because it
> > means we can ship the FAQ Guide in XML format for Breezy, which looks
> > much nicer. There are a few layout tweaks I'm going to make now that XML
> > is an option too, so stay tuned..
>
> Hi Rob
>
> I tried the FAQ guide in yelp. I found a couple of problems with the
> way yelp handles qandasets:
>
> 1. It doesn't put the "Q:" in the right place. As a matter of fact, it
> puts two "Q:"'s for each question. One is at the end of the question,
> and the other is just below it, slightly overlapping the question.
> Ugly.
> 2. It ignores xref's that point to qandaentry tags. This means that
> there are many places where part of an answer has the word "Read" and
> nothing else.
>
> I'm pretty sure I have the latest version of yelp - according to
> Ubuntu Update Manager my Hoary is up to date.
>
> Yelp may not crash with qandasets, but sadly, it doesn't handle them
> very well yet. :(

We have agreed to ship HTML for a number of reasons, can we stick with that?

Yelp still does not support qanda and is long off from supporting a profile.

If you wish to make improvements to the formatting, then please do so in the 
CSS.

-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
084-854-9408
http://www.inwords.co.za
Registered Linux User #375355
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/attachments/20050806/931f5a1a/attachment.pgp>