Make a newly loaded file layer more accessible in the layers panel

[andy/viking.git] / help / C / recommends.xml

diff --git a/help/C/recommends.xml b/help/C/recommends.xml
index 4653989fb5c06d4aff104c0eaac0dcdf9e8d0ffe..275037345a00b104325d603e450e1eeff882d15f 100644 (file)
--- a/help/C/recommends.xml
+++ b/help/C/recommends.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"
-   [<!ENTITY appname          "Viking">]
->
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+   <!ENTITY appname          "Viking">
+   <!ENTITY gpsbabel         "<program><ulink url='http://gpsbabel.org/'>GPSBabel</ulink></program>">
+]>
 
 <section id="recommeds">
 <title>Recommended Programs</title>
 
 <formalpara><title>gpsbabel</title>
-<para>&appname; uses <ulink url="http://gpsbabel.org/">GPSBabel</ulink> for several important functions, such as:</para>
+<para>&appname; uses &gpsbabel; for several important functions, such as:</para>
 </formalpara>
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para>Importing Files from many formats (including KML)</para></listitem>
@@ -18,17 +19,17 @@
 <para>Thus these will not be available if the program can not be found.</para>
 <para>For <trademark>Unix</trademark> like systems this will search the system path to find the program, as it is typically installed via the System's package manager.</para>
 <para>
-       From &appname; 1.6 onwards GPSBabel is not deployed automatically on <trademark>Windows</trademark> systems,
-       as it is made an optional install component (using the official GPSBabel installation program).
-       If GPSBabel is not installed in a typical <trademark>Windows</trademark> location that &appname; can find,
-       then the GPSBabel preference can be set to specify the exact location. See <xref linkend="prefs_external"/>.
+       From &appname; 1.6 onwards &gpsbabel; is not deployed automatically on <trademark>Windows</trademark> systems,
+       as it is made an optional install component (using the official &gpsbabel; installation program).
+       If &gpsbabel; is not installed in a typical <trademark>Windows</trademark> location that &appname; can find,
+       then the &gpsbabel; preference can be set to specify the exact location. See <xref linkend="prefs_external"/>.
 </para>
-<para>&appname; will need to be restarted to use the new GPSBabel location preference.</para>
+<para>&appname; will need to be restarted to use the new &gpsbabel; location preference.</para>
 
 <formalpara><title>unbuffer</title>
 <para>&appname; uses unbuffer command to optimize conversion calls.</para>
 </formalpara>
-<para>This mainly applies to <trademark>Unix</trademark> like systems when invoking GPSBabel commands.</para>
+<para>This mainly applies to <trademark>Unix</trademark> like systems when invoking &gpsbabel; commands.</para>
 
 <formalpara><title>gpsd (not available for <trademark>Windows</trademark>)</title>
 <para>&appname; can use <ulink url="http://www.catb.org/gpsd/">gpsd</ulink> to get the current location.</para>