Re: [Gretl-devel] help files
Am 01.03.2016 um 17:54 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Summers, Peter wrote:
> At least on my Windows 7 desktop, the documentation gets removed by
> the uninstaller automatically.
Yeah, you've spotted the underlying problem that I'm too lazy to
uninstall before installing a new version...
AcroRd32.exe /A "nameddest=chap:dpanel" gretl-guide.pdf
But at present when opening a PDF file on Windows we use the
ShellExecute API (Windows gets to decide how to open the file), and I'm
pretty sure the syntax above will not work with other PDF viewers. Maybe
we can try to detect if AcroRd32 is the default PDF viewer and if so,
call it specifically with a suitable option.
Personally I like PDF a lot, but all this non-standardization sounds
like it could be solved using web formats. So perhaps this would be an
argument to move the help output format to HTML5 + MathML +
WhateverML.... ? Given that Gretl already does a lot of XML maybe that
wouldn't even be too painful. Just thinking out loud...
cheers,
sven