Hi T.J.,
On 01/28/09 20:10, T. J. Frazier wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hi T. J.,
BTW: I thought the "Alphabetic List of Functions, Statements, and
Operators" would be generated automatically. Do you really have
to fix
that by hand?
(This was in reply to Uwe's question about the OLH.)
The list is in Help > Basic > Contents > Macros, etc. > Command
Reference > Alphabetic etc. It's one of my most-used resources;
seeing it incomplete gives me a chill.
AFAIK, that list of functions was generated automatically once, many
years ago. I never touched it. It is incomplete, for sure, but then
the whole "Contents" tab page was meant initially to be incomplete,
giving only the most often needed headings.
Uwe
Oh, dear, /oh, dear,/ *oh, dear!*
I was tempted to delete that list of reference info from the Basic
Help TOC. But if you are using it all the time, I will not delete that
list, of course. Additionally, I try to get a current list from the
developers and post it to the OOo Wiki.
Uwe
If you like, I would be glad to try generating the list automatically.
Scanning the page titles for "[RUNTIME]" should catch every current
entry except "Generating Random Numbers", which page title you could
fix. Expanding the search for "Function", "Operator", and "Statement"
should prove useful. Additionally, my list would not be case-sensitive
in its sort order, which the current list is (and shouldn't be, IMHO).
All this should be trivially easy to do with Basic inside Writer,
provided only that I can get at the page titles, somewhere. I know
enough HTML to cope, I think; XML is still a bit beyond me.
To do this, I need to know two things:
1) How to get at the files (I know zero about how OOo is installed);
2) What kind of list you would like for output. As long as I'm writing
it, I might as well include whatever markup you need. I'll be thinking
in terms of "one page title per line", but if you need Help IDs too, or
instead, or other stuff . . . it's either easy, or impossible :-) :-(
Since this is a flat list, there aren't any "what level" problems.
it is no problem to generate a list from the existing help pages. What
is needed now would be a list of existing BASIC functions. As I do not
plan to look into the sources, I've asked a BASIC developer to provide
such a list. Will ask him again today.
Uwe
btw, the *.xhp help source files are in your installation-folder/help/en
folder. Zipped as jar files.
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