Maybe it would "help the Help" if Mike would put a direct link to the Wiki page in the LTspice Help tab. So there would be three items in the that tab, "Help", "Wiki" and "About". That would remind everyone, new and old, that there is more Help than they think --
Tim
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--- In LTspice@..., "Tony Casey" <tony@...> wrote:
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--- In LTspice@..., "Lewis" <lineblp@> wrote:
Here's an update on using the provided help from LTspice as a basis for
an expanded and annotated help in LTwiki <> :
- Mike graciously allowed use of the existing help as a basis for an
expanded and annotated help in LTwiki, specifically the LTspiceHelp.chm
not the scad3.pdf.
- In doing so, we must make it clear what is the original versus the
annotated.
- I've succeeded in converting the Help to an HTML series of files.
This conversion can be seen at:
LTspice Help <>
-I'm now working on my test server LTwiki to (more or less) seamlessly
incorporate this help as a stub for a section titled 'Annotated and
Expanded LTspice Help'. The approach I'm trying is Iframe Widgets into
the MediaWiki engine that you know of as LTwiki.org
- The end result is to have this Help on the wiki, but the annotating
authors would then further explain, illustrate and annotate a given stub
as they see fit.
best regards,
Lewis
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Hello Lewis,
Sounds like you're making good progress.
I seem to remember that Iframes used to be viewed suspiciously by web security products and experts, and were sometimes blocked. I presume that's not an issue now, or may be it never was?
Would you envisage the expanded help to be able to form a stand alone document that can be browsed without being online? It's possible it would be most useful if it could be used, at least initially, as an alternative to the standard help, for those people that don't or can't get on with the regular one; although I realise this would be much more problematic regarding rights, permission and good will, particularly since you have already obtained permission for it to be used on the Wiki.
Getting people - and I suppose I mean new users, generally - to use the help at all is hard enough, but the more "helps" there are, the less likely they will be to use any of them, I fear.
Do you have any statistics on how many people actually visit the Wiki?
Regards,
Tony
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