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- Overview index file format
- ==========================
-
- The main HTML overview file is a little clumbersome to search. Consequently,
- some users will wish to write their own front ends to launch the correct
- section of the manuals without as much work. To allow this, the
- 'overview.idx' file is provided. This is a relatively simple file format
- which should be parsable in any language with very little work.
-
- The file consists of three blocks :
- * the files block
- * the sections block
- * the SWI/service/command block
-
- It is not expected that all the information be useful to everyone, but it may
- remove the need to manually index the manuals.
-
-
- Files
- -----
- The files block starts each line with a > character. The format is :
-
- >filename.HTML description
-
- This block is provided so that you can give a quick index of all of the
- sections.
-
-
- Sections
- --------
- The sections block is consists of a heading of the same format as the
- file block lines, but starting with a :
-
- :filename.HTML description
-
- Each subsequent line describes a heading in that file. This has the form :
-
- num anchor description
-
- where num is the heading number. 1 being biggest, 6 being smallest.
- anchor is the anchor name used in the file to find that heading. You
- can't really rely on it being called anything; anchor names
- have been generated automatically.
- description is the heading description.
-
-
- SWI/Service/Commands
- --------------------
- This block contains a list of file/anchor pairs and descriptions. It is an
- extracted version of the h5 tag which refers to purely the "right-aligned"
- sections (generally SWIs/Services/* Commands). This is likely to be useful
- if you provide hotkey lookups. The lines start with an = sign :
-
- =filename.HTML#anchor description
-
- which describes each of the locations.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
- No warranty is given for the correctness of these indices.
-