[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
> I can write one in Python in about an hour..
> 
> sampsa
> 
> On 9 Sep 2015, at 16:39, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
> <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:
> 
> > Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes:
> >
> >> The original idea is that it's basically the same format as a VMS
> >> help = file but we'll use some markup to make it more generic, then
> >> export VMS = HELP files, Wiki markup etc.
> >>
> >> YAML will work fine for this.
> >>
> >> If we keep over-engineerin this thing I doubt anything will ever be =
> >> built..
> >>
> >> I vote we use YAML and agree on the tags we use to structure the text.
> >
> > There's a YAML to VMS .HLP converter?

VMS Help content is/was written for display in fixed width font with tabs and spacing for alignment of indentation and columns.  

Agreeing on tags means picking a markup style to structure the text.   Are you suggesting to invent another light weight markup language, or would it make more sense to use an existing one?

- Mark

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