Yes, Don, this is potentially most useful to me and I'd like to get it working (again).
I tried converting all x.-->x y.-->y and \-->/ (for the Mac) but I hit snags, like use of (m.) So I gave up that approach, enabled (x.) and (y.) (etc...!!!) and ran it. Then it did indeed run, but all the hyperlinked words I tried either failed to move (=took me back to the same page) or took me back to Ndx and not to the next relevant page, as I understand you to say. A glance at the source of a few pages confirms this (but i've only looked at a few.) So I guess it's not building its word lists right? I bethought myself to take the precaution of duplicating the folder: "/Applications/j602/help/" before letting your app save back the files. Maybe you might warn the user more explicitly: "we are about to overwrite the contents of "/Applications/j602/help/" -- go and duplicate that folder now." As to what words to hyperlink, the words it chooses now seem good, though whether I'd think so after using it a lot I can't say. I'd find it straightforward though to edit a separate script of the words chosen (the app might write one out) -- or edit a stub script which originally looks like this: INCLUDETHESEWORDS=: 0 : 0 myword yourword etc EXCLUDETHESEWORDS=: 0 : 0 word memory Linux etc ) BTW same-page links don't do a lot in my browser: they behave like no-ops (unless the next word is off the screen) and I have to use Find to look for the last occurrence of a word like "icon" before I see a link that goes anywhere. I suggest that *all* hyperlinked words on a given page take you to the next relevant page, and that the user wanting all occurrences of "icon" (say) on a given page should use Find. Should simplify the app too. Having experience in generating HTML in APL, and needing the practice before I start porting my existing APL apps to J to run on the Mac, let me volunteer to help get this app up-to-date. I'll need to pester you with questions about your code (maybe off-list). Perhaps we might co-work the wiki page http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DonGuinn/AddHelpLinks.ijs ? Ian On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Several years ago I got tired of going to the J help cross reference, going > to a referenced page, then having to go back to the cross reference to find > other references. So I wrote a script that made words listed in the cross > reference into links in every help page where they occur. The links links to > the next occurrence of the word in help, whether it is later in the same > page or on another page. The last one found links back to the word in the > cross reference. > > I found it speeds up navigating through J help. I think it needs a better > way to choose words to link, but the cross reference was easy to use for > that purpose. If people are interested in this then a better way to choose > words can be made. > > I put this script at > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DonGuinn/AddHelpLinks.ijs to avoid attaching > the file to this note. I wrote this a long time ago, so it uses x. and y. > instead of x and y, but it still works if you enable x. and y. names. Also, > I still have lots of trouble navigating in the J wiki, so it looks like a > file to be viewed instead of one to download. > > The script runs when loaded. It pops up a few messages telling you what it > is doing and before it writes anything to the help files it asks you if you > want to proceed. At this point it has completed all processing and all left > to do is write out the files. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
