Re: Online Help for Mac applications

[Gordon Meyer <gordonmeyer -at- mac -dot- com>]

The built-in Help system in Mac OS X, Apple Help, is based on HTML with 
extensions for automating tasks, searching, and so on.

Details and development information is available for free here: 
http://developer.apple.com/ue/help/

Note that the Help Viewer currently supports HTML 3.2 so you may need 
to do some simplification of your layout. Aside from that, there's only 
one meta tag that you must add to a single help file, then use the 
drag-and-drop indexing tool, so getting a working help system going is 
very straightforward.

There's a low-traffic, but useful, Apple Help Authoring mailing list at 
lists.apple.com should you need more guidance.

  --Gordon


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