[PD] help browser rewrite

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So I am in the midst of rewriting the Help Browser to make it based on  
which libraries are installed and usable, i.e which libraries can be  
found in the global path.  For me, the key part is making it  
dynamically built and based on the libraries that are in use.  I don't  
have a strong idea of other parts.

The idea is to make it based around the libdir/dirlib approach of  
having all files for a library in a single folder with a standardized  
but easy structure.  Here's a basic outline of that structure as it  
stands now:

http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Libdir/

Right now, I am thinking that the top level of the help browser will  
have special sections for the classic pd-vanilla docs (1.manual,  
2.control.examples, etc.) another special section for tutorials of any  
kind, then all of the libraries and stray help patches found in the  
path.

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