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Submitted by KeithB on 2010/06/06 20:18

I've found a technique that should work to build a help index for the Jibz' chm manual.

The technique is mentioned in dump2chm.pl /compilation request, and will be able to show like the figure below (I loaded html code in 4 of the online manual pages)

I'm using -- link to nonexistent node ID 1684 -- to try to keep track of things. It would be great if people could load this up with appropriate index terms and/or pages to get the index terms should reference.

I've been clicking "source" in this editor, then putting the html code required at the bottom of the online pages. Then when Jibz makes a new chm manual, any pages marked in the online manual with the appropriate html code and index terms, will show at the top of the chm index as shown. Eventually, we may want to not show the topics at all in the index.

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Comments

Does anyone know if there could be an easier way to do this?

This is seems like a daunting amount of work if one wants to make a comprehensive index....

Tom, I don't know if this is useful or not but I seem to remember that MS "Frontpage" had the ability to auto-create an index based on pages. HTH

Keith, I added some words to the table and only afterwards saw that you had a shortlist at the top of the page:

had you intended that only completed items be added to the table? (because I just added them, I didnt do any work on the actual pages, for some of them I havent even added the pages yet..)

I added a 'Done' column & then changed it to 'Added' and now as I realise I'm very unsure how you planned this, I will wait and see what you say/think !

EDIT/ we could just paste a big [IN PROGRESS] across the top and chip away then without having to worry having 'working' columns in the table (?)

[quote=Tom]

Keith, I added some words to the table and only afterwards saw that you had a shortlist at the top of the page:

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I removed those. I put those at the first try, then forgot about them once things started working, and I put in a table

[quote=Tom]

had you intended that only completed items be added to the table? (because I just added them, I didnt do any work on the actual pages, for some of them I havent even added the pages yet..)

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Everything.

I added a 'Done' column & then changed it to 'Added' and now as I realise I'm very unsure how you planned this, I will wait and see what you say/think !

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That's a good idea

By the way, I don't think it's that daunting--I'm just putting stuff in as I actually search for something...And if anyone can come up with a better way, that would be feed Jibz script, I'm all for it!!

It would be easier (for me at any rate!) and maybe better, if a reference could be marked as done - as said above I'm just adding to the list so far - so I'm marking them as not done - but sometimes I forget...

How's that sound ?

That's great. I'll mark as complete when I put keyword code on the pages. Hopefully this experiment will work. If not, at least we will have a good list of index page terms.