daz@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (daniel.zuckerman) (08/01/89)
I would like to find an X Help tool to provide on-line documentation for an X application. An ideal help tool would have Hypertext features, such as the ability to select certain words in the text and zoom to the corresponding help node. (Microsoft Excel's help does this.) A context-sensitive mode, where the help is started by the application at a certain node (screen), is also desirable. I am interested in both commercial products and public domain code. I will summarize the results to the net. Thanks! Dan --- Dan Zuckerman dan_zuckerman@att.com (201) 291-4885 (Home) (201) 576-2471 (Work) AT&T Bell Labs, Room 3K-309, 307 Middletown-Lincroft Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738
djg@pyrnova (Don Giberson) (08/02/89)
In article <741@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> daz@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (daniel.zuckerman) writes: >I would like to find an X Help tool to provide on-line documentation >for an X application. > >An ideal help tool would have Hypertext features, such as the ability to >select certain words in the text and zoom to the corresponding help node. >(Microsoft Excel's help does this.) > >A context-sensitive mode, where the help is started by the application >at a certain node (screen), is also desirable. > >I am interested in both commercial products and public domain code. Frame Technology's FrameMaker package includes hypertext features, and could be used in a read-only version (frameviewer) to supply your online documentation. They use it for their own product's help feature. FrameMaker is running in X on our machines, & i don't know how many others. how to invoke framemaker from your application isn't real clear to me, but i'd bet it's not difficult! after 8/4, Frame Technology will be at 1010 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131. current phone # is: (408)-922-2754. or contact me if i can be of any help. Don Giberson / Pyramid Technology Corp / djg@pyramid.com / 415-965-7200 x2031 <or> ...!{allegra,decwrl,hplabs,munnari,sun,uunet,utai}!pyramid!djg Standard disclaimer, etc. etc.
nils@es37.UUCP (Nils Davis) (08/03/89)
In article <12074@escd.UUCP> decwrl!xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu writes: >From: decwrl!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!att!cbnewsk!daz (daniel.zuckerman) > >I would like to find an X Help tool to provide on-line documentation >for an X application. > >An ideal help tool would have Hypertext features ... >...select certain words ... and zoom to the corresponding help node. > >I am interested in both commercial products and public domain code. You might look at the Andrew Help program. In many ways it is superior to the Frame help package -- it has, for instance, a window along the side with an index of the help documents available; you can click on an entry in this window, and that help pops up (this is in addition to hypertext and graphics and whatnot). It uses troff source for its documents, while the Frame help uses FrameMaker documents. Also, it's free (on the X11R3 tape). However, the Frame help is a lot faster, at least in the current Andrew implementation. Nils Davis Evans & Sutherland Computer Division ...decwrl!escd!nils 415/969-9300 "Does anyone have an alibi for Tuesday night? I don't, of course." "No you don't, to put it gently. Being at the scene of a crime at the moment of its commission is not normally considered an alibi..." Double Negative by David Carkeet