Spud stuff: other survey software; and a few other bits.

Olly Betts olly@survex.com
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:34:37 +0000


In message <Marcel-1.50-1010202645-965h+Ty@chewy.aleph1.co.uk>, Wookey writes:
>On Tue 10 Oct, Philip Underwood wrote:
>> Is it possible to set up the sgml so that specific bits are output to 
>> specific files and sub-dirs; this makes context sensitive help a lot
>> easier.
>
>You can split it into files for the HTML stuff (so long as 'specific bits'
>corresponds to 'sections' in the docs). So yes it is possible. It might need
>something a bit fancy to move files into appropriate subdirs

You can just specify the filenames to output HTML to in the sgml file, so
just include the appropriate subdirectory in the filename and it's done.

>or produce split output in something other than HTML

I'm not clear what other format we would want to do this for, but some such
things are possible.

Cheers,
Olly