And what about Unix/Linux?
JB Parrett wrote:
>
> >> 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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