Xref: utzoo alt.hypertext:680 comp.text:7660 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!tivoli!lark From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.text Subject: Re: Designing Online Documents Message-ID: <216@tivoli.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 90 16:28:15 GMT References: <5514@newton.praxis.co.uk> Reply-To: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) Followup-To: alt.hypertext Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX Lines: 19 In article brennan@rtp.dg.com (Dave Brennan) writes: >The SEE ALSO sections is an obvious place to look for cross references, but >I've been wondering about how we can detect other items in text that are >good cross reference candidates. In many cases the man page refers to I have written filters before that collect all strings in a man page that are of the form: function(x) . I ran this on _formatted_ man pages. This collects all listings that would appear in the SEE ALSO section, and any other referenced utilities. This is a good starting point for building cross-reference tools. The rest I leave as an exercise... -lar -- --------- TIVOLI Systems, Inc. Lar Kaufman (voice) 512-329-2455 (fax) 512-329-2755 Austin, Texas USA (e) lark@tivoli.com