Editing

If you start wxHelp with the -edit switch you will get more functionality and some extra menus.

You can now highlight blocks of text by dragging with the left mouse button, and assigning new block types to them using the Blocks menu. If you change your mind after selecting a block, deselect the block before dragging again or you'll have two overlapping selected blocks! Dragging is fiddly - the rectangle must be just within the block.

Select/deselect a marked block with shift left-click: it will be marked in cyan (or inverted on a monochrome display) if selected.

Link block A to block B by selecting B, going back to A, right-clicking on A and selecting the Link block to selection menu item. Use this menu to unlink or clear the block.

Find out the block type and when the block is linked with CONTROL left-click.

You can also link blocks to blocks which are in another file, after loading a file, selecting a block, going back the previous section (using the Back button) and linking as per usual.

The usual way to proceed is to take an ASCII file with section headings, then mark it up. Or you could generate the .xlp file automatically (as with the wxWindows help file, reconstructed from the Latex manual.)

File format

Generation of wxHelp files