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Hi...<div><br></div><div>Progress! Here is a version for Mac Users I tested and worked up using the info Tony Forster sent. It works in OS 10.5.8. I have already posted Tony Forster's version on our wiki page. I'll add this one too.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">*Control-click on :</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Courier; color: #2f6ac9"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/4051/addon-4051-latest.xo">http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/4051/addon-4051-latest.xo</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">**Choose "Download Linked File As..." (click on it)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">***In the "Save As:" box type " help-13.zip "</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">***Choose something for "Where" (desktop is OK)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">***Click the "Save" button</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Wait a few minutes for the download. If will give you a 12.6 MB zip file. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Click on it to unzip. It will give you a folder called "Help.activity" full of lots of resources from the activity. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">The folder has a folder in it called, "help." Open it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Find the Activity you are working on. The Chapters and resources for that Section in the Version 13 Help Activity will be there. They are arranged in alphabetical order.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some of these are html files. Click to highlight the file. You will be in the finder. Click on "File" -> "Open With" -> "Safari". The file will open in Safari and look exactly as it currently appears in the Help Activity on the XO.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you have a capable text editor such as TextWrangler ( <a href="http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html">http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html</a> ) you will be able to see and edit the file in html. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Caryl</p><br><div>> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:08:51 -0400<br>> From: kevin.mark@verizon.net<br>> To: support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>> CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; devel@lists.laptop.org; walter.bender@gmail.com; support-gang@laptop.org<br>> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???<br>> <br>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 05:59:56PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:46:23 -0400<br>> > > Subject: Re: Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and<br>> > PCs???<br>> > > From: walter.bender@gmail.com<br>> > > To: cbigenho@hotmail.com<br>> > > CC: devel@lists.laptop.org; support-gang@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> > ><br>> > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > > > Hi Walter,<br>> > > ><br>> > > > The Help Activity we want to work from is 11.3.0. It is version 13 and was<br>> > > > updated by Bastien, David Farning, and Brian Jordan. I don't think they<br>> > did<br>> > > > anything with the Turtle Art Activity. As far as I can see, the last work<br>> > on<br>> > > > it was done in 2008 during, or soon after, the Book Sprint. I you have<br>> > > > 11.3.0 running on an XO you can check it over and be sure of the status and<br>> > > > contents.<br>> > ><br>> > > I thought that the idea was to pull fresh content from the Wikibooks<br>> > > we had written and that the TA book was one of the sources, hence I<br>> > > updated it. I'll try downloading the latest help activity bits and<br>> > > check them. Are they not available on ASLO?<br>> > <br>> > Yes, we would like to import the newest versions taken from updated manuals.<br>> > That is what Tuukka is helping with. But even then, they may need some<br>> > "tweaking" for the latest 11.3.0 Also, some that are much longer than the<br>> > original SECTIONS may not be used in their entirety, but instead will be<br>> > referenced with links. We are a bit concerned about space and don't want the<br>> > Activity SECTIONS to be long enough to be a whole separate manual. The idea is<br>> > to get folks off to a good start with an Activity and have them do one or 2<br>> > projects. Then they can go to the Activity's own manual to learn more.<br>> > <br>> > Now, "true confessions," I am not familiar with the acronym "ASLO." What does<br>> > it refer to and how can we use it to make the FLOSS manual revisions? Is it<br>> > something we can use to read and edit the material on our laptops/<br>> > <br>> > Caryl<br>> > <br>> <br>> wrt 'ASLO', its an abbreviations to reference the website:<br>> 'a'ctivities.'s'ugar'l'abs.'o'rg<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com......|<br>> | : :' : The Universal OS....| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.|<br>> | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]|<br>> |___`-____Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._________|<br>> <br>> There are certain things men must do to remain men.<br>> -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> support-gang mailing list<br>> support-gang@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang<br></div></div> </div></body>
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