| Re: Adding to IDL's help files..... [message #15613] |
Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00 |
David Foster
Messages: 341
Registered: January 1996
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Phil Aldis wrote:
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> I was wondering if anyone knew if there was the capability to add
> chapters or new books to IDL's help.
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> I writing this really large program and I'm going to have to provide
> help for it. I would like if ti was just like the insight help, in
> that from my program, I could simply call my help with a context
> specifier. The user could then also search the help, as standard help
> as well.
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> Does anyone know how this could be done, using IDL's help. Or do they
> have any other ideas about how I could do this. It has to work on both
> UNIX and windows, so I can't just use NT help.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
Phil -
This may not be what you're looking for, but I thought the code
might help a bit if you end up writing something yourself. For
local documentation, I've written a program LHELP that allows the
user to select from all .doc files within IDL's !PATH. There are
search capabilities within each document as well. As for firing
up the help with a context specifier (eg. text string or place-holder)
that's on my wish-list.
You can get LHELP and support files from:
ftp://bial8.ucsd.edu/pub/software/idl/share
Dave
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| Re: Adding to IDL's help files..... [message #15618 is a reply to message #15613] |
Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Phil Aldis wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew if there was the capability to add
> chapters or new books to IDL's help.
>
> I writing this really large program and I'm going to have to provide
> help for it. I would like if ti was just like the insight help, in
> that from my program, I could simply call my help with a context
> specifier. The user could then also search the help, as standard help
> as well.
>
> Does anyone know how this could be done, using IDL's help. Or do they
> have any other ideas about how I could do this. It has to work on both
> UNIX and windows, so I can't just use NT help.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
For unix you need the hyperhelp development to produce your own hyperhelp
help.
It was to expensive for me so I did documentations in latex and converted
them
to html by latex2html. Then you have a very good printable ouput and as
well a good hypertexthelp.
R
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