On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:28 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Hugh,
> 
> > Should I try and tackle what seems like a steep learning curve and use
> > XML DocBook...? This seems to offer what I need but it does seem to be
> > a little less polished than LaTeX.
> 
> Is DocBook to CHM straighforward these days?  I see
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winhelp/docbook_howto.aspx covers it, but
> they're running the whole thing on Windows and are using Microsoft's
> HTML Help Workshop, which you can download.  I'm not aware of a native
> Linux CHM builder.  Perhaps WINE will run hhc.exe?
> 
> > Does anyone have any thoughts/ideas/recommendations?
> 
> CHM production seems to be the main stumbling block?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Ralph.
> 
> 
If you are doing it under Linux, you can always print a pdf copy. Under
windows, Load a utility called PDF24 which becomes a 'printer' to
produce PDF's. 

Peter M.


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