Help for COSTWISH
Help is provided as a series of HTML pages (hopefully all in SGML :-).
I have used Stephen Uhler's html_library to display them - this means that
they can be called from costwish (e.g. to identify errors). For large files it may take a few seconds to display.
There are several places that you can look for help:
- On the RHS of the menu. This is general help and will not normally tell
you how to do specific things
- On individual menus. This will tell you the function of the menus and
their buttons and is the primary documentation. It may be quite brief.
- For additional packages. This applies to CoST and SGMLS (and might be
added for TiX, BLT or whatever (except that these are so easy to use).
- For DTD postprocessors. Each DTD will probably have a postprocessor
which can set up its own menu including Help pages and tutorials.
- Tutorials. There are several general tutorials under 'User Options'.
These may be a much better place to start than reading the help.
- Errors. I have customised sgmls so that when you get errors
from it, they link to the place in the files where the error occurred and
to some (hopefully) useful words of wisdom.