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How To Use This Document

General

I hope that generally, the use is intuitive. I have built a document navigation bar that remedies the shortcomings of HTML with regard to navigation features needed in a manual, and I think users will find that usage is trival as a result.

Special Feature!

I know that with a "real" manual, many people find it useful to make notes. I do too. With that in mind, look at the navigation bar at the top of the page. In the center of the bar, you'll see a non-bold item entitled Notes. That link is to a file that I do not supply. Each Notes link is unique; every page points to a different Notes file, the filename of which is derived in an obvious way from the filename of the parent file.

For instance, this file is named:

fm_howto.html

The Notes file would then be:

um_howto.html

As you can see, only the first two letters of the filename are different.

Now, if you create one or more of these files, you keep them in the same directory with the fm_xxx.html files. When you install an upgrade, since the um_xxx.html files are not supplied, your notes will never be overwritten.

Also, since each Manual file is already preset with a link to the Notes file, you'll never have to modify the manual itself (subsequently losing your changes when you update the manual during a new installation).

Here is some text you can copy and paste into a text editor (such as Windows NotePad) to use as "boilerplate" for your notes pages:


<html>
<head>
<title>ReFLEX - Notes Page</title>
</head>
<body>

Replace the bold text with your text. Also, each Paragraph should end with the "<p>" marker as shown right below this text.
<p>

</body>
</html>


Use of this is simple. Copy the above text. Paste it into your text editor. Replace the indicated text with your notes, and then save the file with the appropriate um_xxxx.html file name, the one that matches the fm_xxxx.html page you want the notes "attached" to.

That's all there is to it, and now you have custom notes attached to the ReFLEX manual that you can get to via the Notes link in the navigation bar on that specific page.

You know, I'm kind of proud of myself for this idea...


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