On Wednesday 08 Jul 2009, Hugh Frater wrote:
Okay, so I've decided that I want to write some technical
documentation for one of our software packages here at work. I would
like to be able to deliver a help system for windows (chm probably -
some of our user base uses 2k pro) as well as a
Okay, so I've decided that I want to write some technical
documentation for one of our software packages here at work. I would
like to be able to deliver a help system for windows (chm probably -
some of our user base uses 2k pro) as well as a nicely styled
paper/pdf manual from the same source.
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:28 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Hugh,
Should I try and tackle what seems like a steep learning curve and use
XML DocBook...? This seems to offer what I need but it does seem to be
a little less polished than LaTeX.
Is DocBook to CHM straighforward these
Hugh Frater wrote:
I know that microsoft
now want to eol CHM support and move to something else (I can't
remember what exactly though) and this replacement might be easier?
In vista, looking in %WINDIR%\Help there are quite a few files ending in
.h1s. These appear to be MAML format.
And to throw another spanner in the works, I've just discovered
reStructuredText which looks rather sweet...
Hugh
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