Summary of mails concerning R help system -- really --

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> MM> However, I agree with Luke Tierney, that also for windows, HTML should be
> MM> enough in principle.
> 
> Especially now that I'm finished with supporting short filenames for HTML
> conversion :-)

Yup. 

There are still two arguments remaining for doing the WinHelp thingie:

- Uniformity with other Windows application (if compiler vendors are
shipping with HTML help, that point may be a bit moot, though.)

- People who don't have the browsers. Getting rare nowadays, I suppose.

Anyways, I found out that an elaborate tex2rtf system is contained in
the wxwin package, so if someone has a couple of spare days (or
weeks), I suspect that it would be rather easy to change it into
rdconv -t rtf. I agree, however, that there's no particular hurry with
this compared to all the other stuff we want to do.

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