Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910061658250.3187@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2009-10-06T16:01:45Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Help file doesn't display correctly
In-Reply-To: <38b9f0350910060740x52acc44as61c19d94fda1a280@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ronggui Huang wrote:
>>
>>> Dear R Developer,
>>>
>>> It seems to be a problem with help file. Not sure if it is related to
>>> the new format of Rd parser. Multiple lines are joined together
>>> without proper line break.
>>
>> It was a problem with the handling of fancy quotes in a DBCS encoding (as
>> used for CJK languages). ?We don't attempt to use them for sQuote(), and
>> will no longer attempt to use them for help. ?This will take effect in
>> r49952 and later, and seems to work for me in CP936.
>>
>> It is not easy for us to test in Chinese Windows (most non-Chinese editions
>> do not support it, or need add-ons installed), so please keep on reporting
>> issues, particularly those with help (text, HTML, PDF?) rendering.
>
> As for the HTML help, it works if I launch it by help.start(), but the
> link becomes broken if I launch it by click menu "help- html help".
That is the expected behaviour, since it uses static HTML help and no
prebuilt package HTML pages are being shipped. I don't know if Duncan
wants to change it to call an R function, but that would have the
disadvantage of being unavailable when R is running (you will note
that that menu item is not greyed out when Rgui is running
computations, unlike most others).
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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