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IMPORTANT!!!

This is the second release of StrawHelp. While it is functional and usable, there are numerous things that it does not do; or does differently. Please read the user guide PDF (available below) to see what the shortcomings are, and then read the list of changes (below) to see what I've fixed/added...

Costs and distribution rights

Full details are provided in the "licence agreement" which is shown during installation.

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User guide

What's new?

• Code to get StrawHelp working with systems running MSIE8.
• Bugfix release - no functional enhancements.

This is what has changed since the initial release:

• Manuals listing switches to 'small icon' format if there are more than 28 manuals. RIGHT-click on it to toggle between big and small icon view.
• Left-aligned is now justified. Looks better.
• Standard font definitions are now 12pt (RISC OS specified 14pt).
  This is because 14pt looked too big in Windows. Different metric perhaps?
• Supports background colours by RGB and WIMP colour, and also 'tiles' a background texture if you select WIMP colour 1.
• Now supports simple effects like *bold* and /italics/.
  By a simple effect, I mean just wrapping a word with slashes or asterisks, as opposed to using the proper {*} sort of convention.
• Subpages are linked to by their referencing link. Also some "return to top" links inserted.
• The button "Go to help index" now reads "Manuals index".
• Supports included files (but only one at a time).
• Correctly copes with constructs like "#f;Indent"; failing to do this was the reason of numerous formatting oddities.
• Doesn't fail trying to load a manual where a directory definition is larger than 32K (re. the "INetDrafts" manual).
• A "Go to index" button added, will return you to the manual's opening page (but won't destroy your page history in doing so).

Okay, now for the download!