Apple Help Programming Guide
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Introduction
Apple Help Concepts
Help Viewer
The Help Viewer Window
Searching in Help Viewer
Cross-References and Index Lists
The Library Menu
Help Books
Internet-Based Help Book Content
How Users Access Your Help
The Help Menu
Help Buttons
Help Viewer HTML Items
Help-Specific Meta Tags
Help URLs
Apple Help Segments
VoiceOver Summaries
The Apple Help Application Programming Interface
Authoring Apple Help
Designing a Help Book
Authoring Help Pages
Authoring Tools
Creating Topic Pages
Printing A Page’s URL
Creating Navigation Pages
Creating a Basic Help Book
Organizing the Help Book Folder
Creating a Title Page
Specifying a Help Book Icon
Creating a Chapter-Based Help Book
Organizing a Chapter-Based Help Book Folder
Creating a Dynamic Table of Contents
Specifying Chapter Order
Indexing Your Help Book
Controlling Indexing of Your Help
Setting Keywords
Adding Abstracts
Setting Anchors
Setting Anchors for Generated Lists
Creating Segments in Help Files
Specifying What Is Indexed
Using the Help Indexer Utility
Indexing for Languages Other Than English
Anchor Indexing
Storing Pages on Remote Servers
Generating an Index Compatible with Different Versions of Mac OS X
Specifying a Minimum Term Length and Stopwords
Setting Error Verbosity
Running Help Indexer from the Command Line
Adding Specialized Content to Your Help Book
Adding QuickTime Movies to Your Help Book
Running Other Applications from Your Help Book
Opening an External Web Page in Help Viewer
Using Help URLs in Your Help Book
Automating Help Tasks with AppleScript
Initiating a Search from Your Help Book
Creating a Link to an Anchor Location
Generating Lists from Anchors
Opening Other Help Books
Setting Up Exact Match Searching
Providing Your Own Online Support Articles
Localizing Your Help Book
Language-Specific Resource Directories
Specifying Character Encoding
Indexing a Non-English Help Book
Help Book Registration
Where to Place Your Help Book Folder
How to Register Your Help Book
Editing the Information Property List File
Using the Apple Help Registration Function
Opening Your Help Book in Help Viewer
Displaying an Anchor Location
Searching Your Help Book
Loading a Help Book Page
Appendix A: Apple Help Meta Tag Properties
Appendix B: Apple Help URLs
Appendix C: Apple Help Segments
Revision History