NWE Help: Make Help Pages

This directory contains files used to make the help pages. It is not linked to publically accessible web pages.

The procedures for making NWE updates, classroom schedules, and instructor databases are documented in the NWE admin directories.

Principles:: Some principles we try to follow
Conventions:: Conventions used for help files
Pages to Make:: Plans for future NWE documentation
Making NWE Updates:: How to add to the NWE updates page
Docshare:: Free documentation consortium; NWE is member

Old Methods

A single script, /web/nwe/share/make-help-file.pl was used (prior to Spring 2005) to merge help data files (text files which contain 2 or 6 lines of header data and some HTML content) with help templates.

(Here in case there are any rogue old pages still around.)

File format:: Help file format (for most help files)
Index format:: Index file format (for directory indexes)