Creating HTML Help

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Hi all,

I'm a total n00b when it comes to HTML, so I'm likely missing something totally simple….:roll:

I'm writing the HTML help for some VOPs, and thought I'd embed some links and (gasp) maybe even some images to illustrate some concepts (saves on typing ), but…
Say I want a simple "see also" link to another custom VOP's help (something related); it seems that I can only use an absolute path for its URL (maybe there's a way to configure the browser to change this behaviour?), because if I try a relative path it always seems to use $HFS/houdini/config/Help as the root of the relative lookup – and I can't find a way to change this, or add $HOME/houdini/config/Help or $JOB/houdini/config/Help as additional paths to try (like every other path-like behaviour in Houdini).

I'd love to be able to use an “opdef” type path for these things and store all resources within the OTLs themselves, but that doesn't seem to work either…

The HTML help for each VOP is embeded with the OTL making everything nice and portable, but as far as I can tell, anything that's not pure HTML text (i.e: links to other VOP helps, images, etc.), is forced to live in an external location which is fixed and relative to $HFS/houdini/config/Help. Is this the case, or am I smoking the wrong brand again? 8)
Mario Marengo
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Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
Mario Marengo
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http://www.w3.org/MarkUp [w3.org] ????

*cough*

OK OK - couldn't resist…

Cheers,

J.C.
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Oh, Awesome!! Thanks John! :roll:
I also heard of a great search engine… “gaggle” or something like that !

sheesh!…. and I gotta work with this guy every day! :shock:

… there goes the bandwidth…


Mario Marengo
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Hey - I just thought it would beat listening to those damn crickets!

Cheers,

J.C.
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