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st: RE: RE: 'Linking' help files


From   Jesper Kj�r Hansen <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: 'Linking' help files
Date   Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:29 +0100

Thank you Nick (and Kit),

and let's not forget the ever so important carriage return in the end.

I had actually been through [U] 21, but obviously I missed the important
bit. From now on I will always read the technical notes too. ;-)

/Jesper

Nick Cox wrote:
> 
> You need a file -ffdtset.hlp- which contains 
> the single line 
> 
> .h ffdtstart 
> 
> See [U] 21.11.6 p.243. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Jesper Kj�r Hansen
>  
> > I am in the process of writing help files for an ado-package, 
> > and I would
> > like to document two separate (but related) commands in the 
> > same .hlp file,
> > i.e. I would like to 'link' the .hlp files so that when I write:
> > 
> > -help ffdtstart- the file ffdtstart.hlp is shown,
> > 
> > and when I write:
> > 
> > -help ffdtset- the file ffdtstart.hlp is _also_ shown.
> > 
> > I seem to recall that this can be done by inserting a 'link' 
> > in the file
> > ffdtset.hlp, which points to ffdtstart.hlp - but since I 
> > can't find any
> > writing on this, I am not sure if it is doable?
> > 
> > I am aware that Stata controls this (for official commands) 
> > using the alias
> > files (ahelp_alias.maint, bhelp_alias.maint, ..., 
> > zhelp_alias.maint), but
> > how should it be handled for user-written packages (apart 
> > from the obvious
> > answers such as duplicating help file or inserting a 
> clickable link)?
> > 


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