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From: djg@pyrnova (Don Giberson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Want X Application Help Tool
Message-ID: <79461@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 1 Aug 89 21:16:41 GMT
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Reply-To: djg@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Don Giberson)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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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
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