Add $or element to help, update help docs a bit

basis/help/handbook/handbook.factor

@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ ARTICLE: "encodings-introduction" "An introduction to encodings"
 { $code "\"file.txt\" utf16 file-contents" }
 "Encoding descriptors are also used by " { $link "io.streams.byte-array" } " and taken by combinators like " { $link with-file-writer } " and " { $link with-byte-reader } " which deal with streams. It is " { $emphasis "not" } " used with " { $link "io.streams.string" } " because these deal with abstract text."
 $nl
-"When the " { $link binary } " encoding is used, a " { $link byte-array } " is expected for writing and returned for reading, since the stream deals with bytes. All other encodings deal with strings, since they are used to represent text." ;
+"When the " { $link binary } " encoding is used, a " { $link byte-array } " is expected for writing and returned for reading, since the stream deals with bytes. All other encodings deal with strings, since they are used to represent text."
+{ $see-also "stream-elements" } ;
 
 ARTICLE: "io" "Input and output"
 { $heading "Streams" }

basis/help/help-docs.factor

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ ARTICLE: "block-elements" "Block elements"
 "Elements used in " { $link $values } " forms:"
 { $subsection $instance }
 { $subsection $maybe }
+{ $subsection $or }
 { $subsection $quotation }
 "Boilerplate paragraphs:"
 { $subsection $low-level-note }
@@ -88,6 +89,12 @@ $nl
     { "an array of markup elements," }
     { "or an array of the form " { $snippet "{ $directive content... }" } ", where " { $snippet "$directive" } " is a markup word whose name starts with " { $snippet "$" } ", and " { $snippet "content..." } " is a series of markup elements" }
 }
+"Here is a more formal schema for the help markup language:"
+{ $code
+"<element> ::== <string> | <simple-element> | <fancy-element>"
+"<simple-element> ::== { <element>* }"
+"<fancy-element> ::== { <type> <element> }"
+}
 { $subsection "element-types" }
 { $subsection "printing-elements" }
 "Related words can be cross-referenced:"
@@ -119,7 +126,7 @@ ARTICLE: "help" "Help system"
 "The help system maintains documentation written in a simple markup language, along with cross-referencing and search. Documentation can either exist as free-standing " { $emphasis "articles" } " or be associated with words."
 { $subsection "browsing-help" }
 { $subsection "writing-help" }
-{ $vocab-subsection "Help lint tool" "help.lint" }
+{ $subsection "help.lint" }
 { $subsection "help-impl" } ;
 
 IN: help

basis/help/markup/markup.factor

@@ -1,19 +1,12 @@
-! Copyright (C) 2005, 2008 Slava Pestov.
+! Copyright (C) 2005, 2009 Slava Pestov.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 USING: accessors arrays definitions generic io kernel assocs
 hashtables namespaces make parser prettyprint sequences strings
 io.styles vectors words math sorting splitting classes slots
-vocabs help.stylesheet help.topics vocabs.loader quotations ;
+vocabs help.stylesheet help.topics vocabs.loader quotations
+combinators ;
 IN: help.markup
 
-! Simple markup language.
-
-! <element> ::== <string> | <simple-element> | <fancy-element>
-! <simple-element> ::== { <element>* }
-! <fancy-element> ::== { <type> <element> }
-
-! Element types are words whose name begins with $.
-
 PREDICATE: simple-element < array
     [ t ] [ first word? not ] if-empty ;
 
@@ -250,8 +243,21 @@ M: f ($instance)
 
 : $instance ( element -- ) first ($instance) ;
 
+: $or ( element -- )
+    dup length {
+        { 1 [ first ($instance) ] }
+        { 2 [ first2 [ ($instance) " or " print-element ] [ ($instance) ] bi ] }
+        [
+            drop
+            unclip-last
+            [ [ ($instance) ", " print-element ] each ]
+            [ "or " print-element ($instance) ]
+            bi*
+        ]
+    } case ;
+
 : $maybe ( element -- )
-    $instance " or " print-element { f } $instance ;
+    f suffix $or ;
 
 : $quotation ( element -- )
     { "a " { $link quotation } " with stack effect " } print-element