Re: Graphical help browser

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 25 11 2008 kl. 00:51 -0600, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> 2008/11/23 Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>:
> 
> >  We only have the info browser, which IMHO have two problems: 1)
> > you have to remember some keyboard shortcuts (that I always forget), and
> 
> > 2) it opens in the same window as the Octave prompt meaning I can't look
> > at them both at the same time.
> 
> The point of info is that it's supposed to be easy to generate
> HTMLified versions of the docs, as well as other versions (pdf,
> plaintext, whatever). Okay, the generated HTML isn't very pretty, and
> it's not easy to insert images into TeXinfo files (I think), but it
> solves both of the problems above. Currently QtOctave uses Octave's
> HTMLified TeXinfo as a documentation browser, and whatever other
> problems QtOctave has, this one does seem like the right thing to do.
> 
> What problem are you solving that generating HTML from TeXinfo isn't solving?

I am indeed using 'makeinfo' to generate the HTML files. The help
browser is just a simple HTML viewer that is integrated with Octave. The
functions for generating the HTML pages does a bit of extra stuff like
changing the headers, and similar.

Søren