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**category**

``help_info_support``
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Experimental help predicates for inline browsing of the Texinfo versions of the Handbook and APIs documentation. Currently requires Ciao Prolog, ECLiPSe, GNU Prolog, XVM, SICStus Prolog, SWI-Prolog, Trealla Prolog, XSB, or YAP as the backend running on a POSIX system.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(help(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 0:9:0
| **Date:** 2025-05-02

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``


| **Complements:**
|    :ref:`help <help/0>`
| **Uses:**
|    :ref:`os <os/0>`
|    :ref:`user <user/0>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|    (none)

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Public predicates
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.. index:: handbook/0
.. _help_info_support/0::handbook/0:

``handbook/0``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Opens inline the Texinfo version of the Handbook.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``handbook`` - ``one``


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.. index:: handbook/1
.. _help_info_support/0::handbook/1:

``handbook/1``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Opens inline the Texinfo version of the Handbook at the given topic.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``handbook(Topic)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``handbook(+atom)`` - ``one``
|    ``handbook(+predicate_indicator)`` - ``one``
|    ``handbook(+non_terminal_indicator)`` - ``one``


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.. index:: apis/0
.. _help_info_support/0::apis/0:

``apis/0``
^^^^^^^^^^

Opens inline the Texinfo version of the APIs documentation.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``apis`` - ``one``


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.. index:: apis/1
.. _help_info_support/0::apis/1:

``apis/1``
^^^^^^^^^^

Opens inline the Texinfo version of the APIs documentation at the given topic.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``apis(Topic)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``apis(+atom)`` - ``one``
|    ``apis(+predicate_indicator)`` - ``one``
|    ``apis(+non_terminal_indicator)`` - ``one``


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.. index:: man/1
.. _help_info_support/0::man/1:

``man/1``
^^^^^^^^^

Opens inline the man page of the given script.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``man(Script)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``man(+atom)`` - ``one``


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Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)