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Preface

Part 1 -- Introduction

1	Introducing the Help System

Part 2 -- The Author's Job

2	Organizing and Writing a Help Volume

3	Writing a Help Topic

4	Processing and Displaying a Help Volume

5	HelpTag Markup Reference

6	Summary of Special Character Entities

7	Command Summary

8	Reading the HelpTag Document Type Definition

Part 3 -- The Programmer's Job

9	Creating and Managing Help Dialog Boxes

10	Responding to Help Requests

11	Handling Events in Help Dialogs

12	Providing Help on Help

13	Preparing an Installation Package

Part 4 -- Internationalization

14	Native Language Support

A	HelpTag 1.3 DTD

Glossary

Figures

1-1	Application Help menu

1-2	General help and quick help window

1-3	Formats for graphic and text hyperlinks

1-4	Topic tree in a general help dialog box

1-5	Index search dialog box

1-6	Index entry prefix notation

1-7	Print dialog box

1-8	Hierarchy of topics

1-9	Browser help volume

2-1	Help volume topic organization

2-2	File Manager view of help files

3-1	Note, warning, and caution help icons

4-1	Browser help volume displaying help families

4-2	Help print dialog box

9-1	General help dialog

9-2	Quick help dialog with four standard buttons

13-1	Application installation package

13-2	Relationship of build directories and installation package

14-1	Sample formatting table

Tables

6-1	Typographical Symbols

6-2	Greek Characters

6-3	Math Symbols

6-4	Arrow Symbols

6-5	Miscellaneous Symbols

14-1	Common Desktop Environment Character Sets

14-2	Help System Language and Territory Names

Index