And about "how to make a chm from the hmtl" ?
See here:
http://xsisupport.com/2013/07/24/chm-version-of-softimage-2014-user-guide/


I found my sdk 2015 chm, and the problem is all the scripts that the html
version uses. Maybe I gave up too easy, but I remember it being a mess

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Stephen Blair <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> IIRC, the toc.txt is used to populate the pop-up you get when you
> highlight a command in the script editor and press F1:
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> Doing a chm version of the latest SDK doc was just too much work. There
> were so many changes in how that help was structured and implemented. I did
> first pass at the help project, but it looked a nightmare and I dropped
> that project...
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Derek Jenson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> In case the online documentation ever goes away, I downloaded the html
>> 'user' & 'sdk' guides for Softimage from the AD website; here:
>>
>> https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/softimage/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-softimage-documentation.html
>>
>> I installed the guides as stated in the docs and now when I use the
>> 'help' menu in Soft the local, off-line, html docs pop-up in a browser.
>> Perfect!
>> However, after pointing Soft to the off-line docs, I get this warning on
>> startup:
>> "Couldn't locate the Softimage help topic file (toc.txt).
>> C:\...\doc\en\offline\sdkguide\toc.txt"
>>
>> What is the toc.txt file? No mention of a help toc.txt file in the docs.
>> The help function works as expected. But how can I fix or suppress this
>> warning. I don't want to get into the habit of ignoring warnings every time
>> Soft starts.
>>
>> Another question:
>> Steve Blair made the Soft_User_Guide.html available in
>> Soft_User_Guide.chm format. I prefer the .chm help; seems faster &
>> snappier. Can I force the 'help' commands to use the .chm file?
>>
>> And yet another question:
>> If the above is possible, is a Soft_SDK_Guide.chm file available, to my
>> knowledge only a User Guide was created? If not, how can I make a .chm file
>> from the .html SDK docs?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Derek
>>
>
>

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