Re: Help on adding help
Re: Help on adding help
- Subject: Re: Help on adding help
- From: Gary C Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:55:53 +0100
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 07:35 pm, Jessica Kahn wrote:
Would you please clarify exactly what the last two items mean, though?
We do generate system-wide and book-wide tables of contents already,
but not indices. If you're requesting something that we don't already
have a feature request in our database for, I'd like to get it in there.
Ok, it went something like this:
UI: Single additional round push button icon in the Help Viewer for
indices.
Function: The feature would auto generate an alphabetical, linked index
of the currently viewed book text (or when at the top level contents the
union of all registered books) so that information can be more easily
browsed. Currently there seems no system integrated way for a user to
get a 'feel for what information may or may not be in there'. At each
level it relies on the document developers providing accurate, hard
coded index pages.
The top level help contents (and usually title pages) are often too
vague, leaving the user only the option of typing search strings to
explore. The Mac X help item is a good example, there are actually lots
of OS X topics covered (be it a little briefly in most cases) but the
only way a user will discover that information is by playing guess the
keyword.
I haven't delved too deeply in to the help indexing system, but I was
hoping that the above may be solved by finding a way of displaying the
help index files in a human readable form - directly with the Help
Viewer.
Regards,
Gary