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Links, Anchors, Macros, Scripts and HTML |
  
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Links, Anchors, Macros, Scripts and HTML |
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Links, more properly referred to as "hyperlinks", are what makes electronic help so much more useful and flexible than printed documentation. Hyperlinks allow you to refer directly to related information, creating a non-linear "web" of information that is much better at describing complex programs and processes than linear documentation.
Earlier versions of Help & Manual had separate dialogs for inserting links. Help & Manual 4 introduces a more efficient, combined dialog for topic links, Internet links file links and scripts and macros.
Help & Manual can create several different categories of links:
Topic links: |
These links create "jumps" to other help topics, which can be in the current help project or in other help projects or help files. |
Topic anchors: |
Anchors are not really links in their own right – they are "targets" for topic links. They allow you to create a links that go to specific positions in a topic instead of to the top of the topic. |
Internet links: |
Links to HTML pages on the World Wide Web or email addresses. |
File links: |
Links to external files on the user's computer. |
Script/macro links: |
These are not really hyperlinks in the real sense of the word. Instead of taking the user to another page or topic clicking on them executes JavaScript code or a macro (which may actually link to something, but it doesn't have to). |
Plain HTML Code
Another subject covered in this section is Help & Manual's function for editing and inserting plain or "inline" HTML code in your help files. If you know how to code HTML you can use this function to add features and formatting with scripts and blocks of code. Use sparingly however, otherwise it can make your projects more difficult to manage!
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