From: "Dalton Spence" 
@Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:37:50 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au



From: "Sammy Mitchell" 
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:24 AM
> Fred Holmes wrote:
> >I still would love a printed manual.
>
> Me too!  I need to find someone who would be willing to
> convert a 2 meg documentation file, with all kind of control
> codes in it, to rtf or some suitable format, so that we
> could them import it into windows help format, and also html
> (for the web page) and pdf for printing.

I'm sure you will get lots of volunteers for this, but it looks like
someone has already conerted it to html. On Monday, February 17, 2003 2:32
PM,  Carlo Hogeveen  wrote:

> The Hlp2txt macro does what Sammy suggests.
> It creates a plain text file of 9 MB. I see no control codes.
> At http://www.xs4all.nl/~hyphen/tse/index.html you can download it.

When I visited the site, there already was an HTML help file for v4.00b.
It's not complete as it was generated from the text output of the macro
listed above, but it should give you some idea what the completed product
should look like. (Uhm, aren't there some copyright issues involved here?)
I'm more interested in the q program in the compiler list that converts
text to help files. I've recently written a help macro for HTML that uses
my web browser to view webpages containing the HTML 4.01 Specification
Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). (These files may be
viewed online at the W3C website http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ > or
downloaded in compressed form and installed on your computer to view
offline.) It works, but I'd much rather use the native help system if at
all possible, perhaps with topical help linked to the synhilite system. (As
an aside, I've also modified my html.syn file keywords so that element
keywords include the leading < and most attribute keywords [there were
about a dozen exceptions] include the trailing = to minimize the number
keywords hilighted in the text outside the tags.)

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