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Subject:Re: Word and WinHelp, was Re: Word up From:Susan Guttman <sguttman -at- semantix -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:26:19 -0500
While we are currently using ForeHelp here, it has yet another major
disadvantage: no version tracking. Makes life a mite more complicated when
you're producing Help in four languages (soon to be six!).
on 12/4/00 11:58 AM, Carnall, Jane at Jane -dot- Carnall -at- compaq -dot- com wrote:
> However, one disadvantage of ForeHelp is that it does not handle large
> projects well (that is, .hlp files of more than 500 topics). I have found
> that working on a very large project, it became necessary to create several
> interlinking help files each dealing with a sub-group of the whole project.
> Eventually we had to stop using ForeHelp entirely: the level of maintenance
> required had become unacceptable. (This was for a project containing around
> 3000 topics in total.)
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