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Article #1390Re: Help text
From: Tom Horsley
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 10:48
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 10:48
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For a project I am working on, I wrote a C++ class to access info files
(info as in the Gnuemacs texinfo). Once I had the engine to access info
files, it was just a matter of a day or so to subclass the texteditor to
make a "hypertexteditor" which can display an info node, highlighting the
links to other nodes, and letting you click on a link to transfer to a
different node. Because the texinfo stuff allows you to generate nicely
formatted hardcopy with TeX and reasonably formatted online documents with
makeinfo, it is a nice combination to use for online help since the entire
manual can also be available online. You can make context sensitive help by
building in knowledge of info node names into your application (especially
into the error processing code).
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