[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53006] GUI Documentation Browser displays Index chapters of manual poorly

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #53006 (project octave):

I'm just going with my recollection.  From what I remember Qt has its
qt-assistant which is something very similar to the classic Windows
documentation browser.  I think what it offers over, say, fundamental HTML is
a search engine that will provide a list of quick links to locations where the
searched-for word is found.  I programmed something like that for gnuplot's Qt
terminal.  I like it, it's fast response/rendering (unlike HTML which has to
do a lot of parsing of formatting words) and convenient search.

However, Qt also has basic HTML support within a Qt frame, so I think one just
needs to feed such a Qt object the HTML code and it will behave somewhat
similar to a web browser.  In other words, the HTML code posted here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/index.html

could be piped into a resident window.  In other words, similar content and
appearance in both Help::Documentation::On_Disk and
Help::Documentation::Online.

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