[jawsscripts] Re: Complete JFW 14 documentation in structured text format
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:11:00 -0500
Personally, and from feedback, many others, find structured text format
to be of greater value than the CHM format distributed with JFW. This
is particularly true using an editor that understands the conventions of
structured text format and supports navigation accordingly.
EdSharp has the best support for this plain textspecification. Similar
to the Windows CHM viewer, one can press F6 on a help topic and be moved
to its section of text in the file. Shift+F6 goes back to the topic in
the table of contents.
In addition, Control+F6 may be used to search for any help topic based
on text contained in the topic name. Alt+F6 goes to the next match.
Control+PageUp and Control+PageDown, moreover, may be used to navigate
to the next or prior topic through the entire file.
Since the file is essentially plain text, other benefits are present.
Control+F may be used to do a global forward search in the file.
Control+Shift+F does a reverse find. F3 repeats a search forward and
Shift+F3 repeats a search backward.
If one is interested in reading documentation in a sustained fashion
over multiple topics, one can simply do a SayAll command.
Some, but definitely not all, of these capabilities are available with
the CHM help format and default viewer.
Jamal
On 11/10/2012 8:55 PM, Geoff Chapman wrote:
> Jamal.
>
> Could you explain to us what the advantages might be, of having the docs in
> this structured text format you have kindly prepared below? i note that you
> do this with every new version of jfw that's released, which must obviously
> take you considerable work/time/effort etc. and, well I'd just like to
> hopefully not embarrass myself toooo much, :) by asking, why?
>
> On an additional note, could you elaborate on the files you indicate have
> not yet been updated, which compare scripts and functions available in
> different versions? I'm sure they'd be of particular interest to us up here?
>
> Thanks much for all you do.
>
> G.
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> From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 12:05 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Complete JFW 14 documentation in structured text
> format
>
>
>> http://empowermentzone.com/jfw14doc.zip
>>
>> I have not yet updated the files that compare scripts and functions
>> available between the current and prior versions.
>>
>> Jamal
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