I usually use search rather than the index to find stuff. The Find in Files dialog available in J is very useful for this and allows you to search all or sections of the numerous help resources that ship with J.
* Edit |Find in Files * "Help" tab * using "Look In:", choose the desired resource to search (e.g. Learning J or the Dictionary or J for C) or search it all. Given that search is already quite accessible I'd be inclined to keep the pages smaller and more manageable, rather than make one big long file. --- Roger Stokes wrote: > On the topic of indexing HTML documents, there is something to be said > for making the document one big page, rather than a page per chapter. > > With one big page, you can use your browser's FIND function to > efficiently > search the entire document: fast searching can work as well as or > better > than a traditional index. > > For an experiment I have put on the web a one-big-page version of > "Learning > J" > at > www.rogerstokes.free-online.co.uk/onepage.htm > > and I would be glad to know if people think this is a good idea. > > There is also a version better for downloading (includes the separate > .gif > files) > > www.rogerstokes.free-online.co.uk/onepage.zip > > Regards > > Roger > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henry Rich" <[email protected]> > To: "General forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:11 AM > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] A couple of gripes about the JSoftware site > > > >I would be overjoyed to get a hot-linked index. I'll give you the > > Microsoft Word source, or the HTML that it produces when I create a > Web > > page, and you can go to it. > > > > If I give you the source, you could add to the index callouts if you > > like. I found that to be a surprisingly onerous task. > > > > The web pages are built as follows: > > > > I save the source in Word as HTML; > > I run a script to find the chapters & split them into pages; > > the script installs the navigation header/footer in each page. > > > > The Index chapter is deleted because it is meaningless. > > > > If this seems OK, email me off-list & we'll get started. > > > > Henry Rich > > > > Hahn, Harvey wrote: > >> Henry Rich wrote: > >> |Oh, you're talking about the index... no, there is no online > >> |link for it, because it is just a list of page numbers. I don't > know > >> |how to generate links to the pages automatically from Microsoft > Word. > >> |So, the index is available only in the printed copy of the book. > >> > >> I'm a librarian (retiring in just a couple of months), and indexes > are > >> our stock in trade. ;-) Would you be willing to give me permission > >> (once I get a copy of your book, which is on my "to do" list) to > create > >> a hotlinked index for the online version of your book? (Or would > you > >> prefer to do that yourself?) > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
