Help authoring
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
The only thing I've ever used for quite a while is docbook . That or MS's HTML Help Workshop, which is a POS but it just barely does the job.
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The only thing I've ever used for quite a while is docbook . That or MS's HTML Help Workshop, which is a POS but it just barely does the job.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
Jim Crafton wrote:
The only thing I've ever used for quite a while is docbook
No front-end UI? Am I being too whimpy? Marc
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
I've not done enough of it to know if it's much better than HTMLHelp, but the one I've been using lately is Abee CHM Maker. It's free and small, so a look costs nothing more than time.
The easiest way to make the world a better place is to refuse to help those that wreck it....
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Jim Crafton wrote:
The only thing I've ever used for quite a while is docbook
No front-end UI? Am I being too whimpy? Marc
I haven't found anything very good so far. Over the years I've looked at about a dozen different editors and found all of them to be pretty primitive in terms of a good WYSIWYG interface to the docbook xml. But maybe there's something new out there?
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
I use FAR[^] for Awasu. Not too expensive and it gets the job done. You use a normal HTML editor to actually write the pages and then FAR to compile the help file.
I enjoy occasionally wandering around randomly, and often find that when I do so, I get to where I wanted to be [^]. Awasu 2.3.3 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project.
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
Help & Manual[^], been using it for a while, and it's awesome.
Wout
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Help & Manual[^], been using it for a while, and it's awesome.
Wout
wout de zeeuw wrote:
Help & Manual[^], been using it for a while, and it's awesome.
Thanks! I'll compare it with HelpBreeze, but Help & Manual looks a lot more professional (even if it is twice the price). Marc
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wout de zeeuw wrote:
Help & Manual[^], been using it for a while, and it's awesome.
Thanks! I'll compare it with HelpBreeze, but Help & Manual looks a lot more professional (even if it is twice the price). Marc
We got the standard version, that seems to be fairly close in price. The standard version is already pretty generous with features.
Wout
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
We've used DocBook, mainly because we can generate CHM and PDF fom it. And we can add headers, footers and a custom front page via the PDF stylesheets to match our corporate document templates. We've used the eDe toolset[^] to convert DocBook to CHM, HTML, PDF. I would like to get a converter from reStructured Text[^] to DocBook, as RST is much nicer to type than DocBook. OpenOffice v2[^] can be used to generate DocBook as well.
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
Mark - give this[^] a try. I've used it a bit (not extensive though) with few problems and the price is very good ($99) with the ability to use for a while before you break out the checkbook.
Mike - typical white guy. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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Mark - give this[^] a try. I've used it a bit (not extensive though) with few problems and the price is very good ($99) with the ability to use for a while before you break out the checkbook.
Mike - typical white guy. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
Mike Gaskey wrote:
Mark - give this[^] a try.
I definitely will! Thanks for the link. Marc
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Undoubtedly asked previously. Recommendations for a help authoring tool? (RoboHelp is out of my price range, BTW) I'm looking at HelpBreeze, but the state of help authoring seems to be in disarray, especially since Microsoft no longer includes support in Vista for some the previous help format unless the user downloads the winhlp32.exe. :sigh: Marc
