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From: nils@es37.UUCP (Nils Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Want X Application Help Tool
Message-ID: <8908031654.AA00906@es37.escd.uucp>
Date: 3 Aug 89 16:54:24 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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In article <12074@escd.UUCP> decwrl!xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu writes:
	>From: decwrl!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!att!cbnewsk!daz  (daniel.zuckerman)
	>
	>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 ...
	>...select certain words ... and zoom to the corresponding help node.
	>
	>I am interested in both commercial products and public domain code.

You might look at the Andrew Help program. In many ways it is superior
to the Frame help package -- it has, for instance, a window along the
side with an index of the help documents available; you can click on an
entry in this window, and that help pops up (this is in addition to
hypertext and graphics and whatnot). It uses troff source for
its documents, while the Frame help uses FrameMaker documents. Also,
it's free (on the X11R3 tape). However, the Frame help is a lot faster,
at least in the current Andrew implementation.

Nils Davis
Evans & Sutherland Computer Division
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