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Re: User HELP files from IDL 3.6.1 to 4.0 [message #5032]

Sat, 09 September 1995 00:00

rivers
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Registered: March 1991

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In article <42pgol$15u@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>, rigby@crd.ge.com (Wayne Rigby) writes:
> In article 8le@upsn2.u-psud.fr, Richard Gispert <gispert@ias.fr> () writes:
>
>> With IDL 3.6.1 it was possible to add
>> help files for our routines to help files distributed by IDL.
>> It was very convenient because developpers had just to write
>> a header beginning by ;+ and ending by ;- in each routine.
>> Then by using MK_LIBRARY_HELP it was very easy to prepare such .hlp
>> files.
>> With IDL 4.0 we got hyperhelp which is very beautiful and convenient
>> BUT we lost the previous facility for personal help files.
>> Who has the solution ?
>>
>

IDL 4.0.1 has MK_HTML_HELP which reads the standard documentation headers and
builds an HTML help file which you can view with Mosaic, Netscape, Lynx, etc. I
find this very nice.

I REALLY wish RSI would put the main IDL help in HTML format as well, then we
could all read it from any platform. That includes text based terminals, using
Lynx. Right now I can't get help on any built-in IDL stuff when I work from
home on a VT/Tektronix emulator.

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		Re: User HELP files from IDL 3.6.1 to 4.0 By: rivers on Sat, 09 September 1995 00:00
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