documentation - full text search useful?

[Marian Petrides]

I, for one, would appreciate the ability to keyword search the dox.  
One of helpful thing that the printed dox (for 1.1 anyway) lack is an 
index--and keyword searchability would help in this regard--although I 
personally still prefer to work on my computer, while referring to 
printed dox.

Marian
On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 07:46 AM, 
revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com wrote:

>
> I've been following the discussions about the roots of Rev in 
> Hypercard, and the problems that people have with using the 
> documentation.
>
> I think it is really quite useful for those new to Rev to be able to 
> get their heads round the fundamental principles of Hypercard.  (I 
> think maybe there could/should be an orientation tutorial that would 
> server this purpose).  I know I found Goodman's book a bit too simple, 
> and find the Kamins et al. book far more useful (although that 
> probably jumps in a bit too far from where Goodman starts...)
>
> About the documentation that comes with Rev.  Given that it is pretty 
> damn thorough, and very well hyper-linked throughout, one of the only 
> ways in which I can see it being made more easy for people to find 
> information within it is if the whole thing was searchable.
>
> I think I could quite easily provide a web site with a search facility 
> that would be able to do a fast search of all the documentation.
>
> Of course I do not want to go ahead and do this unless it would be 
> useful to others, and is sanctioned by Runrev as not breaching their 
> copyright (the legal blurb says something to the effect that the 
> documentation cannot be redistributed in any form whatsoever).
>
> As an example of what this would achieve: I exported the entire 
> documentation set to my hard disk, and searched for the word 'memory' 
> (just a word chosen at randdom).  I found 110 hits, but browsing 
> through the documentation I could only find two or three.  Admittedly, 
> some of my hits will be cross-references, but still I think this would 
> provide quite an exhaustive way for people to be able to trawl through 
> the documentation.
>
> Regards,
> Bernard
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