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Re: [Tads3] Eric Eve's Getting Started guide

In a message dated 9/14/2003 10:30:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, eric.eve@harris-manchester.oxford.ac.uk writes:


I just tried downloading it just now from that link just now, but I'm afraid
it gives me an error message when I try to open it, saying it's not a
Windows help file, or it's corrupted. I've just recalled, however, that the
DM4 is available in Windows help .CHM format, since I've got a copy of it in
that format which came with Imaginate; I don't know how it compare's with
the DM3 helpfile, which you seem to prefer anyway.

-- Eric


I've reuploaded it to another site, and downloaded it to check it's whole. It is.

http://members.aol.com/doepage2/inform.hlp

I am not aware that DM4 was turned into a Windows Help File. I am pretty sure it was not. So the file you have is probably the same as the one above. Maybe not. But it doesn't include any of the history of IF etc. that is in DM4, it is just an Inform electronic reference.

I will add that it is probably one of the best Window Help Files I have ever come across -- one with a practical application that can be used a lot. The nice thing is, of course, that it is searchable. If one wants to find a specific routine, like parsename or something. But it is also extensively cross-referenced and something approaching that COULD be done in HTML but with a lot of trouble.

Your Getting Started Guide is a tutorial that wouldn't need that much cross-referencing, as you have mentioned. I really put it up for Mike's input regarding an electronic T3 reference (manual).

I'd almost volunteer to turn the finalized T3 manual into a Windows Help File (as I said there are programs helping one to do so, one puts in hot spots for cross-referencing, indexing, etc.), except I have a faint idea how much work it could be and I have no foreseeable free time for some time. Also it would be only Windows based.

I wonder, is there anyway to convert a Windows Help File to a Mac Help File? To a Linux Help File? Just curious.

Doe