Am 24.02.2016 um 14:41 schrieb Jim Holsenback:
> On 2/23/2016 9:11 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am I missing something fundamental here?
>>
> 
> I NEVER was responsible for the windows documentation (chm version) I
> just produced a html version (from wiki) that contained the indexentry
> tags as they appeared in the wiki mark-up and passed it on to Chris. He
> did some post processing that converted to chm and also produced the
> searchable index.

That does sound fundamental indeed.

> That brings to mind why chm ... it's been obsolete for sometime now and
> only exists as legacy now.

That's pretty simple to answer: It's what POV-Ray for Windows has been
using for its inbuilt help for quite a while; switching to any
alternative would require changing the program code -- and in the case
of the official alternative the input to the help file compiler would be
exactly the same, so it wouldn't solve the problem at all.

As a matter of fact, the newest official "alternative" to CHM seems to
be to have no context-sensitive help at all, or to roll your own.

> At any rate I got tired of being the only
> person doing /any/ of the grunt work necessary to get this fixed.

If the goal is to repair stuff in the Wiki, I wonder whether there is
anyone else /able/ to do that "grunt work" with reasonable effort. After
all, it seems like something that can be automated -- but that certainly
requires "bulk" access to the Wiki, which you seem to have. I presume
Chris has this level of access, too, but we all know he doesn't have
much time to spare.


> 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.

Still not as elegant as placing the cursor on a keyword and pressing "F1".

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