[Pythonmac-SIG] Python Ref Docs in OSX help format

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 6-mrt-2006, at 20:47, Samuel M. Smith wrote:

> I find the search to be very helpful. Is it hard to convert from  
> HTML to Apple Help format?

No, there's a script in the python tree to do the transformation.  
There's
  another script that compiles the search index, but that doesn't  
reliably detect the end
of the indexing operation.

The hard part is probably to get IDLE to use the help book, although  
I haven't looked into this
yet.

Ronald

>
> On 06 Mar, 2006, at 12:32, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6-mrt-2006, at 20:25, Charles Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> But the Mac Help program has always been and still is a dog. I'd  
>>> much rather have the HTML docs myself.
>>
>> One advantage of the Mac Help program is that it has a search  
>> function. IDLE's 'Help/Python Docs' just
>> opens a webbrowser. I am however happy enough with this that I  
>> don't volunteer to add Apple Help support :-)
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, March 06, 2006, at 05:13PM, Samuel M. Smith  
>>>> <smithsm at samuelsmith.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I asked this before but no one responded.
>>>>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to include the Python Reference docs in
>>>>> Mac Help format in the the
>>>>> MacPython universal installer? or at least as another package
>>>>
>>>> The big question would be: why? The universal installer  
>>>> currently includes
>>>> the docs in HTML format, and whenever I republish the installer  
>>>> IDLE will
>>>> actually find those documents.
>>>>
>>>> If we'd include the documents in Help format I'd like to see a  
>>>> patch for
>>>> IDLE that will open that help book when the users selects 'Help/ 
>>>> Python Docs'
>>>> in IDLE.
>>>>
>>>> Ronald
>>>>
>>>>>
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