>> 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 believe that the developer of QuickHelp on the Mac (Altura) sells
an app to convert WinHelp docs (or source) into QuickHelp format for
the Mac.
http://www.altura.com
>True, this only helps Mac and Windows developers, but I really miss
>the old days with hyper-linked help systems like the one we had for
>the Newton Toolkit. I vote for HTML.
>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... :-)
Would Palm provide the current docs in some format other than PDF to
allow this? How much work is involved in parsing the PDF files to get
at the guts? That would be a good first step.
JB
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