Re: Documentation for the GUI

[Michael Godfrey]

On 02/05/2015 12:10 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 09:14 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 19:17 +1100, Svetlana Tkachenko wrote:
> > > As the intent is to release the GUI to users at a point, where is
> > > the current documentation for it?
> >
> > There is none.
> >
> > Can you help us write it?
>
> Something to consider:  Qt has a facility called Qt-Assistant for 
> help.  It's very similar to what is called a HelpBook in Windows. 
> (That very familiar layout with the table of contents on the left side 
> for quick access, also searching.  Even Acrobat Reader uses that look 
> and feel.) I just used Qt-Assistant for the gnuplot Qt terminal.  The 
> Octave help code would need to be translated to the Qt-Assistant 
> format and bundled, but it doesn't prove too difficult.  There are a 
> few commands for Qt code to interact with the Qt-Assistant, say, 
> jumping to certain locations in help as directed by the code in the 
> GUI.  Just letting you know that's an option.
>
> Dan
Since as it is now, you can bring up pages of the manual within the GUI 
why not just update
the Manual, which has to be done anyhow?

Michael