Re: sect3 headers and Yelp

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:39, Alex Roitman wrote:
> On 2003.11.24 10:18, Don Allingham wrote:
> > The project I am working on (GRAMPS - a GNOME genealogy program) has  
> > recently encountered a problem with GNOME 2.4 installations. On GNOME  
> > 2.4, "sect3" headings no longer show up in "yelp", and we can no  
> > longer use the gnome help functions to bring up yelp to a "sect3"  
> > location.
> >
> > Our project is written in python, and we used to be able to do:
> >
> >      gnome.help_display("gramps-manual","adv-pers")
> >
> > This would bring up yelp to the "adv-pers" tag (a sect3 heading) in   
> > the manual. Under GNOME 2.4, it goes to the top of the document. This  
> > makes the context-sensitive help pretty much useless.
> >
> > When the same code and same manual are run under GNOME 2.2, we get to  
> > the correct heading.
> >
> > Is this a Yelp problem, or has something else changed?
> 
> In regards to this problem, I stumbled upon bug #114117 and the  
> relevant discussion on this list:  
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2003-May/msg00036.html
> 
> It sees that the intention was to have no change in behavior for app  
> developers, but sadly it's not there yet.
> 
> Could you please orient us as to when we should expect the correct  
> behavior with displaying sect3 level headings?
> 
> We are releasing our stable version soon. Releasing it with broken help  
> links is not a nice thing to do for our users.
> 
> Please help!

This will work in 2.6.  There is nothing that can be done for 2.4 at
this point.

--
Shaun