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Help Index
Posted: 2004-09-11 00:07:45
by TimK
For some reason, the Help Index never comes up with anything in Nisus Express. If I put in a term that is definitely in the text (eg 'copy', 'styles') I either get the message saying it can't be found, or just a list of items from other Helps, like the Mac Help.
Is there something I'm doing wrong here? (Yes, I've downloaded the pdf version, and that works fine, but it would be easier if I could use the menu Help.
Posted: 2004-09-11 05:36:53
by dennisg
I found the same thing, then I made a guess that it might be case sensitive. Sure enough, when I typed the menu command I was looking for with the first letter of each word capped, it found it.
Posted: 2004-09-11 09:34:04
by cchapin
I have been having a problem with Help, too. The Help viewer appears, but it is an empty window. Nothing I type in the search field produces any results -- capitalized or not. The window stays empty. I haven't snooped around to figure out whether I'm missing files or anything yet.
--Craig
Posted: 2004-09-12 13:14:49
by suthercd
Searching in Help yields only "No matching help topics were found." The topic I searched for was spell, and I tried Spell, Check spell and other variations. The subject matter is in the help topics, but search did not work.
The Nisus Writer Express 2.0 User Guide.pdf has the same info and is available for download.
No APEs or haxies installed.
Craig
OS X 10.3.5, 1Ghz PB, 1 GB RAM.
Posted: 2004-09-13 07:52:40
by cchapin
I finally got around to rummaging through my hard disk. The help files for NWE 2.0 are there, tucked inside the application's icon, but I can't access them through the Help Viewer. When I click on the magnifying glass in the Help Viewer's search field, the top item in the list is "Search (null)". I suspect that the Help Viewer doesn't know where to look for the NWE files. Does anyone know how this can be rectified?
--Craig C.
Help Index
Posted: 2004-09-14 10:12:03
by rmark
We can't help you at the moment.
Help Viewer needs us to come up with keywords for every HTML page before the help is searchable. We know that's lame, but, it's true nonetheless.
We didn't have time to make the keywords, but it is on the list.
Posted: 2004-09-20 17:45:20
by TimK
thanks. I appreciate the staightforward reply
Posted: 2004-09-20 19:17:47
by cchapin
After I installed 2.0.1, the problem was fixed.
--Craig
Re: Help Index
Posted: 2004-09-22 06:35:34
by marc
rmark wrote:We can't help you at the moment.
Help Viewer needs us to come up with keywords for every HTML page before the help is searchable. We know that's lame, but, it's true nonetheless.
Bad Apple, that
is lame.
rmark wrote:We didn't have time to make the keywords, but it is on the list.
Mark, what about a bit of a community effort, to get that done? Maybe it's impractical, but I reckon I could do a couple of pages, maybe others would be prepared to some as well? Obviously there are quite a few help pages, but at least some basic keywords (the obvious stuff) would be better than nothing, until you have the resources to do it properly.
Another issue, for me, is the index. It'd be great if you could CSS style the index to remove the indent from the lists, and use a smaller font, to better fit the long page titles.
It's already been done
Posted: 2004-09-22 17:11:40
by marc
Ask and you shall receive! For those not on the Dartmouth Nisus list, Kino has already fixed this problem for us, and apparently this fix will be included in the next release.
If you really want search in the NWX help now, follow the instructions below:
Kino wrote:I just tried it. For me, Mac Help did not open. But search did not work
either for the very good reason that NWE2 Help does not have an index
file
I'm not sure if this works for you but please try...
1. Quite NWE2 if it is running.
2. Quite HelpViewer if it is running.
3. Download the following file
http://quinon.com/files/nisus_files/NWE ... elpidx.sit
which will be expanded as "Help idx".
4. Using Show Package Contents, open your copy of Nisus Writer Express;
5. Put "Help idx" in
Nisus Writer Express.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Help/
6. Delete "com.apple.helpui" folder in
/Users/you/Library/Caches/
Don't worry about this. It stores caches only.
7. Launch NWE2 and try to search something, e.g. "footnote", in Help.
Kino
Works for me. A big thanks to Kino!
Posted: 2004-11-12 17:12:08
by TimK
Should the help search function have been fixed on 2.1?
Very strangely, I can search for help on my ibook G3, but when I try exactly the same search on my ibook G4, I just get the "can't be found" screen.
could this be something to do with old files left over from previous versions? If so, what?
TimK
Posted: 2004-11-15 08:14:50
by DavidK
Perhaps I don't understand the instructions: I downloaded the "help IDX" file and started to launch it, but it began launching Classic OS. What is "show package contents"?
David
Posted: 2004-11-15 20:11:22
by midwinter
DavidK wrote:
Perhaps I don't understand the instructions: I downloaded the "help IDX" file and started to launch it, but it began launching Classic OS. What is "show package contents"?
David
control+click on the NWX icon and select "show package contents" from the contextual menu that comes up. This will reveal the hidden folders and whatnot.
Posted: 2004-11-15 21:56:56
by charles
FYI: A help index is now included in the 2.1 release. It is no longer necessary to download and install this file. Thanks for Kino for contributing this to the community!
-Charles