Epsilon Help File Sources

This archive contains the RTF source files for edoc.hlp, the help
file of Epsilon for Windows.  If you've written new commands for
Epsilon, you can use these files to build a version of edoc.hlp that
includes documentation for your commands.  You'll need a help file
compiler such as HCP or HCW to compile these files into a help file;
these are included with many compilers.  We used HCP 3.10.505.

Files included:

edoc.hpj     Help project file; contains references to all RTF files

contents.rtf Main contents page, list of chapters in online manual below
welcome.rtf	 Chapter 1, Welcome
started.rtf  Chapter 2, Getting Started
general.rtf  Chapter 3, General Concepts
topic.rtf    Chapter 4, Commands by Topic
edoc.rtf     Chapter 5, Alphabetical Command List
             Chapter 6, Variables
			 Permuted Indexes
modif.rtf    Chapter 7, Changing Epsilon
introeel.rtf Chapter 8, Introduction to EEL
eel.rtf      Chapter 9, Epsilon Extension Language
prim.rtf     Chapter 10, Primitives and EEL Subroutines
misc.rtf     Chapter 11, Miscellaneous
legal.rtf    Legal Notices

screen*.bmp  The screen shots in Chapter 3, General Concepts
screen*.shg  Above screen shots in a different format, ready for
             inclusion in the manual.

You can edit the RTF source files using either a word processor that
reads/writes RTF files (such as Microsoft Word) or a text editor like
Epsilon.  Four of the RTF files provided (eel.rtf, topic.rtf,
prim.rtf, legal.rtf) have been edited with Word; the style of RTF
they use is not very easy to understand, so if you need to edit these
an RTF-based editor like Word is recommended.

However, you may find that the remaining files (including edoc.rtf,
which lists and documents all commands and variables, and corresponds
to chapters 5 & 6 of the manual) are just as easy to edit in Epsilon;
the format is very regular (since it's all automatically generated
from other files).  To simply add documentation for a new command or
variable, you'll only need to edit edoc.rtf.

To compile the RTF files into a help file EDOC.HLP using HCP, first
edit the file EDOC.HPJ.  If this file contains a BMROOT line in its
OPTIONS section, it must refer to the directory containing the
screen*.shg that are included in this archive; you can delete this
line if you put the .SHG files in the same directory as the RTF
files.  Then invoke the help compiler with the command line "hcp
edoc".