Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hi T. J.,
BTW: I thought the "Alphabetic List of Functions, Statements, and
Operators" would be generated automatically. Do you really have to
fix
that by hand?
(This was in reply to Uwe's question about the OLH.)
The list is in Help > Basic > Contents > Macros, etc. > Command
Reference > Alphabetic etc. It's one of my most-used resources;
seeing it incomplete gives me a chill.
AFAIK, that list of functions was generated automatically once, many
years ago. I never touched it. It is incomplete, for sure, but then
the whole "Contents" tab page was meant initially to be incomplete,
giving only the most often needed headings.
Uwe
Oh, dear, /oh, dear,/ *oh, dear!*
I was tempted to delete that list of reference info from the Basic Help
TOC. But if you are using it all the time, I will not delete that list,
of course. Additionally, I try to get a current list from the developers
and post it to the OOo Wiki.
Uwe
If you like, I would be glad to try generating the list automatically. Scanning the page
titles for "[RUNTIME]" should catch every current entry except "Generating Random
Numbers", which page title you could fix. Expanding the search for "Function", "Operator",
and "Statement" should prove useful. Additionally, my list would not be case-sensitive in
its sort order, which the current list is (and shouldn't be, IMHO). All this should be
trivially easy to do with Basic inside Writer, provided only that I can get at the page
titles, somewhere. I know enough HTML to cope, I think; XML is still a bit beyond me.
To do this, I need to know two things:
1) How to get at the files (I know zero about how OOo is installed);
2) What kind of list you would like for output. As long as I'm writing it, I might as well
include whatever markup you need. I'll be thinking in terms of "one page title per line",
but if you need Help IDs too, or instead, or other stuff . . . it's either easy, or
impossible :-) :-( Since this is a flat list, there aren't any "what level" problems.
This would be a high-priority project for me (for my own use, if nothing else!), but
there's a lot on my plate: broadband next week, Ubuntu to follow, development observer,
&c. Please let me know if you're interested. /tj/
--
T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL
(TJFrazier on OO.o)
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