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- Help file structure
- ===================
- Help files are quite simple to put together, but need quite a bit of work
- doing to the current interface - suggestions please...
-
- Basically you should include a header line like :
- <subject>
- =========
-
- at the top of all index files, and :
- Syntax: <generic syntax>
-
- at the top of all the specific files. If you could settype the specific files
- as Text and index and support files as Data it will make life easier (though
- it won't affect the program).
-
- The files themselves should be formatted to 68 characters wide (off the
- Edit.Word Wrap option in Zap) so that they don't wrap strangely, and should
- NOT begin with a colon (:). Colons at the start of a line introduce an
- embedded command to the displayer. The character following the colon is the
- command type.
-
- Currently only one command type is supported - the > link command. This is in
- the form :
- :>text to show>linkfile
- And consecutive lines of lines will be joined together in a form of table -
- this looks nasty sometimes, but I may fix it soon.
-
- Other than that, the only read thing you need to know is that the command
- line :END is reserved for the last line of the file and MUST be followed by a
- return.