If I were trying to achieve the same objective, I would catenate all the pages together into a single HTML page (removing the prolog and epilog parts), and then just use the "Find" facility of the browser on the one HTML page.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:29 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] The Ambiguous Dictionary To: Programming forum <programming@jsoftware.com> > 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
