Re: Help strings in the text body of the manual

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 04/24/2016 10:29 PM, LachlanA wrote:

> Having said that, I have almost never looked at the manual.  Finding what I
> want in a 1000 page document is too hard.  Perhaps Pantxo's suggestion could
> reduce the manual to a 200 page document, with 800 pages of appendix -- or
> perhaps each chapter could have a short "synthesis" section with this sort
> of discussion, followed by (and hyperlinked to) its own function list.

Qt has a feature similar to Windows HelpBook, called Qt Assistant:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/assistant-custom-help-viewer.html#using-qt-assistant-remotely

It requires HTML code and then a few simple steps to compress the set of 
files into the proper file format.  Once loaded Qt Assistant will allow 
searching, which is nice because it is a fast way to jump to the 
documentation of interest.

Dan