>> I'm curious. I've never heard of HELP format; what is it?
>
>I'm guessing he means Windows help format. Which would be nice for us
>Windows users, but utterly useless for the Mac people out there.
The closest I could figure was WinHelp, too. But, yeah, I figured that it would
only help Windows people out there, and also -- as you said -- MS seems to be
moving away from it.
I read some previously-unread postings in my inbox and noticed people
recommending other things like Visual SlickEdit format. Isn't this also a
Windows-only solution? I don't think that Palm has the time or resources to
provide documentation in platform-specific formats.
But, you know, I see this topic come up all the time. Everyone wants
documentation in some format other than the format it's provided in. If I were
an independant developer, I'd sure see a market opportunity here to provide
software to translate documentation into different formats... :-)
>Personally, I'd settle for HTML. Besides, the help file format seems to
>be gravitating towards html in newer versions of Windows.
Yeah, I think they've been doing this for a few years now. But isn't it a weird
form of HTML? Something that allows them to package up many "pages" into a
single file and index them for quick access? I think I remember hearing a furor
at the time MSDN was moved over to this new, proprietary format and away from
the older, public WinHelp format. Has that changed? Is this packaged-HTML
format now public?
-- Keith
