Re: GtkTextView for help files?

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:41 -0700, William Dest wrote:
> I'm creating an external help file for my program,
> invoked from the Help menu.
> I'd like to keep the file simple so a tech writer can
> update it from time to time, but I would also like it
> to have bold headings, bookmarks, etc.
> Is GtkTextView the right tool for this?  It's not
> going to be edited by the user, so I don't need all
> the editing features, but I would like a viewer to
> recognize tags - in fact html would be ideal.

If you are happy using GNOME technologies in addition to GTK+ then you
might look at how GNOME programs do help:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libgnome/libgnome-gnome-help.html

and you might want to ask the GNOME Documentation Project team for more
information:

        http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/

Keith.