Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Varii

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Hi,

thanks all for your quick replies, it proves me there's still someone 
behind scrollkeeper ;-)

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:58:04PM +0100, Camille Bégnis wrote:
> 
>>And I have some practical quesions:
>>
>>- Is it possible to use other categories than the ones in categories.xsl?

[...]

> One case where you may wish to just have a distro-specific
> customisation, I guess, is if you wanted to have, say, "Mandrake
> documentation" as a top-level category. My personal preference would be
> to rethink your categorisation at that point, but even within my own
> company I am hardly known as somebody sensitive to company marketing
> goals and public image, so my personal preference is worth little here.

Well, this is my point. I find legitimate that a Mandrake fresh user can 
find a "Mandrake" top level category in his help browser; moreover when 
the books found under it cover a large spectrum of topics from 
installation to system admin, through KDE, gnome, etc.
What approach do you recommend in this case?

>>- Which stylesheets are used for performing docbook transformations? Is 
>>it possible to use a custom stylesheet layer?
> 
> 
> Scrollkeeper does not do any document transformation. It is purely a
> meta-information system used to locate the document on your system and
> quickly retrieve certain bits of information about it (the stuff in the
> .omf files). Once an application has retrieved a document (or, really,
> just the meta-data), it can do whatever transformations it wishes.

OK, I just got the information that you cannot change the stylesheets 
used by either yelp or khelpcenter :-(
This is a major annoyance IMHO.
So I guess we'll stick to HTML instead of XML, and discard tree navigation.

Thanks again,

Camille.