Quoting Mike Chambers to Jorj Strumolo:
Edited for brevity:
MC> 3) If you want to print off the new features, that's easy:
MC> 1. press
MC> 2. select your topic
MC> 3. press the grey+ key // copies the help text to your
MC> clipboard 4. press esc // exit help
MC> 5. press the grey* key // paste the block to your buffer
MC> 6. print the block // prints it
MC> 7. delete the block
MC> In fact, you could accumulate the topics and print them in what ever
MC> fashion you like.
Hi Mike,
Hmmm, think the above steps could be included in a macro that traverses
the entire help system in TSE? For example, selects the first help topic
in help, completes the steps outlined above, prints the topic to a file,
and then selects the next help topic? This process would continue until
all help topics had been written to disk, either under the help topic
name, or in a single text file. **Hint Hint** to any and all TSE macro
pros out there!
Like most blind PC users, I prefer ASCII documentation-- there are just
too many utils already out there for searching/retrieving information
from text files. I know someone will say that V2.5 already has a
searchable help system, but I'm currently using V2.0.
In order to gain the equivalent access to the contents of the printed
manuals, I currently must scan and process the manuals through my OCR
software package. This requires that I chop apart the manuals so I can
send them through the doc feeder on my HP scanner. The final output even
with some cleanup is only about 95% accurate. Not bad, but it sucks when
it comes to studying the macro language in any great detail! Anyway,
anybody up to attempting the above mention macro? Let's hear from ya'll!
Regards, Jack
Internet: jterm9@infi.net
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