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+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
+"dtd/kdex.dtd" [
+<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
+<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
+]>
+
+<article lang="&language;">
+<articleinfo>
+
+<authorgroup>
+<author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author>
+<author>&Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;</author>
+
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</authorgroup>
+
+<date>2002-10-17</date>
+<releaseinfo>3.1</releaseinfo>
+
+<keywordset>
+<keyword>KDE</keyword>
+<keyword>KControl</keyword>
+<keyword>Help Index</keyword>
+<keyword>Index</keyword>
+</keywordset>
+</articleinfo>
+
+<sect1 id="help-index">
+
+<title>Help Index</title>
+
+<note><para>At the time of writing, for most installations of &kde; the entire search engine function in &khelpcenter; is disabled, and settings made in this &kcontrol; module will have no effect.  We hope to have it back in a future release.</para></note>
+
+<para>&kde; comes with a lot of documentation for applications and
+components. While it is possible to just browse the manuals until you
+find that piece of information you're looking for, this may be a very
+time-consuming task. To make this easier for you, &kde; offers
+fulltext search using a program called
+<application>ht://dig</application>. It works quite similar to search
+engines on the web, in fact some search engines you know might even use
+it. Just click on the <guilabel>Search</guilabel> tab in the
+&khelpcenter;, enter the word you are looking for, click
+<guibutton>Search</guibutton> and enjoy!</para>
+
+<para>However, to make use of this feature,
+<application>ht://dig</application> has to be installed on your system
+and &kde; has to be configured to make use of it. This control module
+tries to help you doing the latter. If you haven't installed
+<application>ht://dig</application> and it wasn't shipped with your
+operating system you have to get ht://dig yourself. Have a look at
+<ulink url="http://www.htdig.org">the ht://dig homepage</ulink> on how
+to download and install it.</para>
+
+<para>When you first start, you are in display mode only.  To modify
+your settings, click on <guibutton>Administrator Mode</guibutton>.  If
+you are logged in as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>,
+you will go straight to the change dialog.  If not, &kde; will ask for
+a superuser password.</para>
+<sect2 id="help-index-use"> 
+
+<title>Use</title> 
+
+<para>There are two important things to tell &kde; so it can make use of the
+fulltext search engine:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>where to find the <application>ht://dig</application> programs
+KDE uses for fulltext search</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>where to search</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<sect3 id="help-index-use-progs">
+
+<title>The <application>ht://dig</application> Programs</title>
+
+<para> There are three programs &kde; needs that come with
+<application>ht://dig</application>: <command>htdig</command>,
+<command>htsearch</command> and <command>htmerge</command>. For each program you
+have to provide the full path including the program name, for example: <filename
+class="directory">/usr/bin/htdig</filename>.</para> 
+
+<para>Where exactly these programs are installed depends on your operating
+system or your distribution. However, there are some good guesses you might want
+to try:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+<listitem><para><command>htdig</command> and <command>htmerge</command> are
+often found in <filename class="directory">/usr/bin/</filename> or in something
+like <filename
+class="directory">/usr/local/www/htdig/bin/</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>the <command>htsearch</command> command is often found in a sub
+folder called <filename class="directory">cgi-bin</filename>, for example
+<filename class="directory">/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/</filename>.</para>
+
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<tip><para>To find out where for example <command>htdig</command> is installed
+you can always type <command>whereis htdig</command> on the
+console. <command>whereis</command> will look for the specified command in the
+standard execution path folders. However, folders like <filename
+class="directory">cgi-bin</filename> are often not in the standard execution
+path.</para></tip>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="help-index-use-scope">
+<title>Scope and Search Paths</title>
+
+<para>In this section you can choose which help resources should be indexed,
+&ie; made available to the search engine.</para>
+
+<para>In the <guilabel>Scope</guilabel> frame you can select some
+typical resources you want to be indexed, &ie; the &kde; help files,
+and the information offered by the <command>man</command> and
+<command>info</command> commands. Note that some of those may still be
+disabled, which means that support for them has not been added
+yet.</para>
+
+<para>Maybe you have additional files you want to access using the
+&khelpcenter; fulltext search feature. For example, you might have an
+<acronym>HTML</acronym> reference installed in
+<filename>/home/jdoe/docs/selfhtml</filename>.  By adding this path to
+the list of additional search paths you make this documentation
+available to &khelpcenter;'s fulltext search, too. Just click on the
+<guibutton>Add</guibutton> button and a file dialog will ask you for
+an additional search folder. Select
+<filename class="directory">/home/jdoe/docs/selfhtml</filename> and click
+<guibutton>OK</guibutton>. To remove an additional search path, just
+select it and click <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.</para>
+
+<important><para>Your changes to the scope and additional search paths
+will not take effect if you don't click on the <guibutton>Generate
+index</guibutton> button.</para></important>
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+</article>
+