Introduction to the Help System
The GNOME Desktop displays help in the Yelp Help
browser. For more information, see Yelp Help Browser in the
GNOME Desktop User Guide.
The source documents for the help are XML files. The XML files are
written to the DocBook XML Version 4.1.2 document type definition (DTD). The
DocBook XML files are converted to HTML using stylesheets installed with
gnome-doc-utils and the HTML is displayed in the
help browser. For more information on DocBook XML, see the following URL:
The Help system uses Open Source Metadata Framework
(OMF) files, and a cataloging system. The next sections describe OMF files
and the cataloging system.
