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28 Apr 2024 22:09:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Searching the Help file.  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 25 Feb 2016 09:13:01
Message: <56cf0bed$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/24/2016 10:05 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> On 2/24/2016 8:41 AM, Jim Holsenback wrote:
>> That brings to mind why chm ... it's been obsolete for sometime now and
>> only exists as legacy now. At any rate I got tired of being the only
>> person doing /any/ of the grunt work necessary to get this fixed. I
>> don't use windows version so this just dropped off my radar. I getting
>> plenty of mileage out of stand-alone unix version docs. When I want to
>> find something quickly I just go 3.3.1.2 Keywords section.
>
> CHM is pretty great. Quick loading when compared to PHP. Can search all
> help files or just within one page. Nested, alphabetical index with more
> stuff than just key terms. A TOC that is always visible and within easy
> reach, and automatically shows/highlights the page you are on.
> Context-sensitive help, as clipka mentioned.

You've misunderstood ... PHP is ONLY used to pull from wiki and format 
back into to the standalone html packages (win, nix and mac)

>
> I don't think anyone here is going to roll an alternative that is just
> as good. Just because an OSS alternative is /possible/ doesn't mean
> anyone will get around to actually making it.
>
>
> Mike


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