Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window.

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window.

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window.

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread John Pye
Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window. These are things that

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread John Pye
Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window. These are things that

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread John Pye
Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window. These are things that

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm'

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm'

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: > Hi there, > > Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using > Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( > In particular, I want to be able to generate

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread Bo Peng
Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using python/manual.cls and an adapted layout file. This works reasonably well but there is no chm output and other fancy stuff. I tried the lyx/docbook

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread John Pye
What version was it that you tried with? I think (am hoping) that 1.3.7 and then 1.4 should be better... Cheers JP Bo Peng wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread Bo Peng
Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using python/manual.cls and an adapted layout file. This works reasonably well but there is no chm output and other fancy stuff. I tried the lyx/docbook

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread John Pye
What version was it that you tried with? I think (am hoping) that 1.3.7 and then 1.4 should be better... Cheers JP Bo Peng wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread Bo Peng
> Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using > Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using python/manual.cls and an adapted layout file. This works reasonably well but there is no chm output and other fancy stuff. I tried the lyx/docbook

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-17 Thread John Pye
What version was it that you tried with? I think (am hoping) that 1.3.7 and then 1.4 should be better... Cheers JP Bo Peng wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? Personally I am using

software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-16 Thread John Pye
Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm' files for Windows, and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that other people on the

software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-16 Thread John Pye
Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm' files for Windows, and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that other people on the

software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-16 Thread John Pye
Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? In particular, I want to be able to generate 'chm' files for Windows, and DocBook XML for GNOME ('yelp' help browser). Is this something that other people on the