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From: BSD@PSUVM.BITNET (Scott Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Has 0.9 shipped?
Message-ID: <89118.215524BSD@PSUVM>
Date: 29 Apr 89 01:55:24 GMT
References: <278@nueces.UUCP> <647@accuvax.nwu.edu.NWU.EDU>
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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In article <647@accuvax.nwu.edu.NWU.EDU>, mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) says:
>
>In article <278@nueces.UUCP> becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) writes:
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>        -I took a look at digital librarian for a few seconds, and
>         noticed that a few of the uppermost icons (i.e. NeXT Ref
>         Manuals, Websters, etc.) were empty--does this mean we will
>         be able to create documents for teh librarian (somehow i
>         doubt it)
>
You can already create documents for the librarian.  It isn't documented
anywhere I could find, but it is possible.  There is a directory under
.NeXT in each home called targets.  This directory contains all of the
icons for the librarian, as well as a file called #Targets.  The #Targets
file contains commands to tell it what goes in each well.  For each well,
there are several fields.  It seems like the ones
title
icon
position
are all required.  These specify the title of the document, the icon
to use, and the well number for that doc.  The icons are all .ps files
in the targets directory.  In addition, there can be either a field
directory that tells what directory contains the document, or a field
message that tells what other app to launch from here.  Examples will
clear this up.

For the NeXT documentation, the entry looks like:
title NeXT Documentation
icon binder.ps
position 1
directory /MyDisk/Library/Documentation/NeXT

For the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, it looks like
title Oxford Quotations
icon oxford.ps
position 5
message Quotation [quote]

For directories, the directory must contain an index created
by the index program.  This one is also not well documented
and is somewhat buggy.  If you follow its leads and read the
shell scripts that it runs, you can pretty much figure it out
as well.

So, the upshot is you can add your own documents.  I have already
added Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech,
all of the US Presidential Inaugural addresses through Nixon,
John Milton's Paradise Lost, and a couple of Dr. Seuss books.

I hope this doesn't change too much in 0.9, but I hear that
index is supposed to get better.

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--Scott Dickson
Graphics Research Programmer
Penn State Univ. Computation Center
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