On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:48:30 -0800, "Lea Rush" <l...@astoria-pacific.com> wrote:
>I did a comparison of RH vs. Mif2Go at the beginning of the year, and the >biggest difference I found was that RH supported Natural Language search. >Does Mif2Go support that, or will it? If I understand you correctly, you are talking about WebHelp search, right? So you are comparing RH WebHelp with OmniHelp. (For other Help formats, like HTML Help, search is built in so that it is the same regardless of the tool used.) One difference is that OmniHelp is Open Source (LGPL), and RH WebHelp is proprietary. That means that with OmniHelp, you can add any search engine you please, by modifying the JavaScript. It's not trivial, but it's certainly possible. For OmniHelp, our goal is to make it very fast to respond, because people using Help systems want to find the info they need quickly and get on with the job they are doing. So we do all the search indexing at authoring time, and provide a JavaScript array, ready to use, so that search even of large docs is instantaneous. That approach pretty much limits you to keyword search (including regex), which we feel is a very reasonable price to pay for the high speed. We also feel that an index, properly done, is superior to any form of search. So we're not inclined to invest the time needed to implement "Natural Language" search in OmniHelp ourselves. It would slow down searches, especially on large doc sets, dramatically, for a rather questionable benefit. However, anyone who really wants it can certainly add it as an option, and redistribute the result legally, which may not be possible under less permissive licenses. And, of course, there are quite a few other differences that we consider much more significant... but that's your call. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jer...@omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.