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Big changes in dhelp
Nov 15, 2007 onAs I said earlier, now the fun stuff begins :-)
I have been working with dhelp
these days, and there are a couple of things I have changed already:
-
I have dropped support for the
dhelp
-specific.dhelp
files. Now I just use thedoc-base
information directly (until now,doc-base
had to convert its own format todhelp
, which was a bad things for several reasons, one of them losing important information in the process). -
I have changed the indexing code so it now indexes the actual documentation content, instead of the documentation directory generated by
dhelp
. -
I have rewritten most of the HTML used in the searches and in the documentation directory so it’s nicer and easier to modify (e.g. no more
<font>
or similar obsolete tags).
While working on the indexing changes, I have been playing with swish+++, an indexing engine. Seems really useful, although some options are not that obvious, and I haven’t been able to use extract++
to extract the text according to the file format (e.g. skipping HTML tags in HTML). I’ll keep trying…
Hopefully, the package will be ready for release in a week or so…