> A convenient way to search keywords in a document
> is to catenate all the HTML files together as one,
> and then use the browser (esp. FireFox) to do the 
> searching.

The CHM format has a very decent full text search,
that really makes index unnecessary, it has a nice
hierarchical contents, it compresses the help folder
several times. The viewers are available for all
platforms.

--- Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback re the J dictionary.
> 
> I have removed mention of conjunctions wrt trains.
> 
> I have removed the sentence in section II G 
> that contains the word "operator".  I will think 
> of a place to put the description that operator 
> denotes adverb or conjunction.  
> 
> I have removed mention of trident.  "Bident" 
> continues to be used just once, as the label
> on row 6 of the parse table.  (Row 5 is now 
> labelled "Fork".)
> 
> I have made no changes regarding "pro-adverb"
> and "pro-conjunction", nor regarding "pronoun"
> and "proverb".
> 
> I prefer not to have a separate definitional 
> section.  Such a section increases the chances 
> of having two different definitions for the 
> same term.  As well, many of these terms are 
> best defined together in running prose.
> (For example, cell, frame, and item.)
> 
> The index is constructed by a program.  The 
> program can be improved.  For example, I would
> like the program to accept a list of terms
> that should be indexed in addition to any
> terms that it comes up with.  It is mystifying 
> to me how the program can omit from the index 
> words like "adverb" and "cell" and "quicksort".
> 
> A convenient way to search keywords in a document
> is to catenate all the HTML files together as one,
> and then use the browser (esp. FireFox) to do the 
> searching.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Boyko Bantchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, October 1, 2006 11:51 am
> Subject: [Jgeneral] word-chasing in the docs
> 
> > I spent some time of the weekend chasing the
> > definitions of certain terms in the documentation
> > that comes with the J distribution.  Here are some
> > observations from my reading that I would like to
> > share.   ...
> 
> 
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