On Wed, 16 May 2007, Sergei Gorelkin wrote:

> Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 11:22:16 AM, Michael wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> As far as I know chm files are html not rtf.
> 
> MVC> Yes, but they must/can be generated by the microsoft help compiler from
> MVC> the same RTF source. .hlp is also a compiled format, with RTF as the 
> source.
> 
> It isn't exactly this way. The chm compiler accepts only html's. The 
> Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
> is able to convert RTF source to a bunch of html pages, but the
> result is typically unusable without a lot of hand correction.

Ah. I didn't know that. I used helpscribble in the past, and that works from 
RTF.
Probably it creates a HTML page for each topic from the RTF.

> Since fpDoc is able to produce nice html output, it can be used
> directly as chm source - without touching RTF at all.

Yes, that would be the better way, of course. Hopefully .CHM understands
style files, then...

Michael.

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