Re: [docbook-apps] Using docbook-generated htmlhelp

[Roel Vanhout <roel@riks.nl>]

Thank you very much, I did search before posting but didn't find these 
messages. I'm sure I'll get things to work with these hints.

cheers,

roel



Gisbert Amm wrote:
> This question was answered before, e.g. in
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2001-q2/msg00838.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook/2003-01/msg00063.html
> 
> and others
> (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200106/msg00259.html is
> not available at the moment).
> 
> Regards,
> Gisbert Amm
> http://web.de
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Roel Vanhout [mailto:roel@riks.nl]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:32 PM
>>To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>>Subject: [docbook-apps] Using docbook-generated htmlhelp
>>
>>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I hava a question for those of you that generate htmlhelp 
>>from docbook 
>>and link to that from their windows programs. I'm wondering what the 
>>best way is to do it; in the past, I have put <indexterm> 
>>elements in my 
>>docbook documents and then linked to there using ::HtmlHelp() with 
>>HH_KEYWORD_LOOKUP. The downsides to that are that I cannot link to 
>>somewhere in the middle of a page, and that the 'index' pane 
>>of htmlhelp 
>>is always opened. That, and I need to maintain a list of <indexterm> 
>>elements, besides the id="" attributes that I already have.
>>
>>So my question is: is there a way to link to DocBook id 
>>attributes using 
>>::HtmlHelp() with the HH_KEYWORD_LOOKUP method? The problem 
>>is that I do 
>>not know the filename that is generated for a certain page (my call 
>>needs to look something like
>>::HtmlHelp((HWND)pHelpInfo->hItemHandle, 
>>"c:\somepath\\htmlhelp.chm::/ch03s01.html", HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC, NULL);
>>
>>but it would be a PITA to have to hardcode the html 
>>filenames; and them 
>>having to change them every time I reorder my document.
>>
>>I hope the explanation of the problem is clear; does anyone recognize 
>>the situation? How can I solve this? Thanks!
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>roel
>>
>>
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