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Date:Mon Dec 30 15:04:25 2001 
Subject:Re: Reading the documentation with a web browser 
From:Bill J Ellis 
Volume-ID:1011230.04 

Pete Goodeve <pete@jwgibbs.cchem.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in message
a0jddn$fed$1@agate.berkeley.edu">news:a0jddn$fed$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
> In article <9vtlda$103a$1@agate.berkeley.edu> ("Thirty Years..."), I
 wrote:
> >   I've hammered together a PHP script that lets me access the doc
> >files from my browser.  [.....]
> >                                                 If anyone wants it,
> >I'll be happy to make it available.  Actually you can try it at:
> >
> > http://jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu/pop11
> >
>
> The script has been through several iterations since then, and now
> handles *most* of the cross-reference variants that VED uses.  The
> latest version is in place at the URL above.
>
> It now understands mutiple references on a line where only the first has
> a prefixed section.  If the '*' is the first non-whitespace it assumes
> 'HELP'.  It even looks up topics in 'ref/doc_index' if it can't find
> them in the current section.  [THAT mechanism was hard to find...!(-))]
>
> It doesn't handle quite *all* asterisk forms -- I didn't want it to
> tag "X * Y" for instance -- and it ignores the few lower-case tags
> that occur.  It doesn't try to follow 'subreferences' that follow
> a slash.
>
> I don't think I'll do much more work on it, so as promised the script is
> now available (as plain text) at the URL:
>
>        http://jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu/pop11/getscript.php
>
> I think it should install easily on any server that has PHP available
> [and the docs themselves, of course!].  You'll have to change the
> "$usepop=..." line in the script appropriately, but I believe that's all.
> I have it as 'index.php' in its own 'pop11' server directory, but you
> may want to do it some other way.
>
> Hope it's useful.
> -- Pete --

Note a happy little giggle from beyond at the
nice on-line documentation:

http://jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu/pop11

Unfortuntally, i am most intrested in the prolog
subset of poplog. (pop11 is just anouther
subset of the same big poplog bestie, right?).

Would these neat little scripts accomidate the
prolog documentation?

Yours,

Bill J Ellis