By "structured", do you mean DITA or some other type of structured content?
Nadine > >I?ve got documentation in structured FrameMaker 10 and Mif2Go. I?ve produced >Eclipse Help routinely in the past, but for the first time, we?re creating a >user interface in Visual Studio. We want to integrate the Help so that a >button or menu item in the UI will open a Help window, complete with a table >of contents and search facility. An index would be nice, and context-sensitive >links to the documentation would be nice, but are lower priority. >? >The software is intended for Windows operating systems only, and it?s supposed >to be a standalone installation?no internet or network required. >? >We are considering Microsoft HTML Help, but have a few concerns because it >seems somewhat dated and lacking in active development on Microsoft?s part. We >are also considering standalone Eclipse Help because it?s being maintained and >we can leverage our previous experience, but we are somewhat daunted by its >size and the fact that we couldn?t find anyone using it when they aren?t >producing an Eclipse-based product. WebHelp requires us to buy RoboHelp, which >isn?t out of the question, but I?m not sure we can justify the cost because we >don?t need it to run cross-platform nor from a server, and our developer is a >bit concerned about the uncompiled set of output files being too easy for >customers to mess with. Could anyone suggest any other Help formats we should >look at? Can anyone endorse a Help format or tell us which ones we should >avoid? Can anyone (besides Jeremy J) tell me about their experience with >OmniHelp? >? >Fei Min Lorente >Senior Technical Communicator >Medical and Wireless Division >feimin.lorente at onsemi.com >+1 519-884-9696 ext. 2229 | Waterloo office >+1 519-831-4931 | mobile >+1 905-631-5724 | fax >www.onsemi.com
