I read the chapters of the manual in the Book Reader, and this enables me to 
skim through the manual by chapter or section.  I rarely use the manual 
utility, and then only the index to narrow down my search into a particular 
chapter of the manual.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Paul Henrichsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Braillenote List <[email protected]
>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:47:45 -0700
>Subject: re: help system: was RE: [Braillenote] question about displays.

>I tend to use the index, but would like a way to skip quickly through the
>document, to the next paragraph or section. The context sensitive help has
>always worked for me, though.
>At 8/17/2005, you wrote:

>>I find the help system excellent!
>>I primarily use the context sensitive help with chord-h.  That gets me
>>what I need about ninety-nine percent of the time.  Otherwise, opening the
>>appropriate section of the manual in KeyWord and using the find command
>>takes care of the rest.

>>I rarely need to use the index, but have found it useful a time or two.

>>The reality is, the more powerful the device, the more details one will
>>have to wade through.

>>A very happy PK user,
>>Richard


>>on  Wednesday 8/17/2005 02:50 PM Kathy Williams said
>>>Well, Sarah, that's why there are people called Technical Writers who do
>>>this for a profession, and get big bucks for doing it. Your term
>>>eventually is the clue that this help system is not as easy to use as it
>>>might be. A good help system gets the information you need promptly
>>>without meandering through extraneous topics, details, and related
>>>comments. Perhaps you haven't yet had experience with a really rigorously
>>>written help system as they are few and far between.

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