Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!bu.edu!purdue!haven!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmdeo!adspdk!hclausen From: hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: AutoDocs & HyperText Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 12:57:21 GMT References: <6265@milton.u.washington.edu> <13794@cbmvax.commodore.com> Lines: 36 >In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: >I've got (had? - depends on many other things) a version of the 2.0 >AutoDocs loaded into the hypertext system "Thinker". >Given an autodoc that references >another function, you can click on the names of functions, and get the >docs for the referenced function. Your choice of doing it in the >current window, another window, or any open thinker window. I have a similar arrangement in my text editor, Uedit. Currently only parts of the 1.3 AutoDocs, though - waiting for 2.0 final to start banging on this again. It works really great, fast reference for all calls and many struct's, and you can quote into your program. >Unfortunately, building those thinker documents was a lot of work, and >it's not liable to be repeated. Nor am I sure about how I can >distribute them - after all, they're covered by some funny agreement I >had to sign to get them. Ditto. It'd be real nice if some freely distributable HyperText AutoDocs reader could be made available. I would happily distribute my AutoDoc HyperText file for Uedit users. >When logic and proportion have fallen softly dead, Mike Meyer >And the white knight is talking backwards, mwm@relay.pa.dec.com >And the red queen's off her head, decwrl!mwm >Remember what the dormouse said. "Feed your head, Feed your head" -Henrik -- | Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data (Fido: 2:230/22.33) | | ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen | \__"Do not accept the heart that is the slave to reason" - Qawwali trad__/