On Wednesday 08 Jul 2009, Hugh Frater wrote:
> Okay, so I've decided that I want to write some technical
> documentation for one of our software packages here at work. I would
> like to be able to deliver a help system for windows (chm probably -
> some of our user base uses 2k pro) as well as a nicely styled
> paper/pdf manual from the same source. It seems crazy to have to
> manage two version of the same source...
At work we produce Help for Windows Apps in html these days. It's cross-
platform and can be linked into the App to make it context sensitive and you
don't have to use any particular browser. However, although I know this works
in XP, I don't know if it will work in W2k.
I don't actually know how to do the linking, I normally just write the docs.
However, my next task is to clean up and publish the docs for the system we've
just completed, so I will probably get to know in the next few days. If you
are still interested I'll ask the developers and let you know.
> I have been dong some research into what I should use to author this
> help system/manual and have a few queries:
If you use html, then you have lots of alternatives
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Terry Coles
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