Improving the Help text on HP Prime
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07-03-2024, 07:51 AM
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Improving the Help text on HP Prime
Hello all,
We're currently working out some new improvements (new release is coming!!) and are currently also looking at improving the documentation around Prime. One of the being the integrated Help-option. There’s been significant interest expressed amongst some of our beta testers on improving the text in the online (integrated into the calculator) help. Some of the descriptions are out of date or inconsistent as this hasn't been a priority in the last years. To get this task done as good and fast as possible, we're looking for an extension of the beta-testing team. If you're interested in supporting us with development on Prime and this task in particular, please send your contact details to klaas.kuperus@moravia-consulting.com. The way this would work on the subject, is to provide you with the XML files. The English XML file was posted before project transition to Moravia (https://www.hpcalc.org/details/9286) and we are keen on updating this. Thanks for the ongoing support and let's hope for many replies. ![]() Product Manager HP for MORAVIA Consulting, the EMEA & AP Licensee for HP Calculators. http://www.hpcalcs.com |
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07-03-2024, 09:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-29-2024 06:48 PM by ftneek.)
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RE: Improving the Help text on HP Prime
Klass, would it be possible to upload an XML file for the current public release?
Attached is a small python script I'm using to search through the published XML file / help text, off-calculator. This can make it easy(er) to browse through search hits, and potentially notice things to improve. You should download the XML file linked in the first post, a more recent XML file would allow for more recent / relevant help text to appear in the results. Code: # Search for a command or phrase in the Help Catalog For example when searching for 'fracmod', the following is displayed in the terminal Code: Search for: fracmod One simple improvement that someone could suggest would be to remove the extra closing parentheses in Code: fracmod(Expr,Integer)) If more things get noticed, more things get fixed ![]() edit: I noticed that HP Museum didn't allow a .py file upload here. Shouldn't that be changed, since the Prime supports a version of micro python? - neek |
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07-03-2024, 10:27 AM
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RE: Improving the Help text on HP Prime
(07-03-2024 07:51 AM)KlaasKuperus Wrote: Hello all, Please, please, PLEASE allow Terminal to use a fixed-width font, maybe make it available as an option in Setup (or even better, give the user a choice of fonts and allow new fonts to be added!) Tom L Cui bono? |
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07-03-2024, 01:41 PM
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RE: Improving the Help text on HP Prime
(07-03-2024 10:27 AM)toml_12953 Wrote: Please, please, PLEASE allow Terminal to use a fixed-width font, maybe make it available as an option in Setup (or even better, give the user a choice of fonts and allow new fonts to be added!) Have you tried my solution for outputting fixed-width font to the terminal? Piotr Kowalewski |
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07-08-2024, 07:51 PM
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RE: Improving the Help text on HP Prime
By the way, I updated the code in my post above. Mostly some formatting changes, but it now looks for matches in the Help text as well as long title, short title, HID, and examples.
- neek |
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