Follow-up: after seeing the related function
AnswerFormatHelp
I experimented with that, but using that function led to no text or link appearing at all in the question display, regardless of the single- or multi-question page. "AnswerFormatHelp.pl" was included in the sample PG file.
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helpLink working only in single-question view, not multi-question
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