Re: Help Authoring, standard approach

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

When you speak of "help authoring" do you mean a compiled helpfile? If
so, the end of the process may mean using the Microsoft Help
Compiler--which as I recall takes .rtf input. You can download the
HTML Help Workshop from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vsconHH1Start.asp

This can, of course, be produced from XML original material.

Your question about "docbook on Linux" was interesting--since a great
deal of Linux documentation has been produced in DocBook for some
years now. So yes, there are plenty of DocBook tools.

If you have not done so, you might look at the "preview release" of
OpenOffice.org (which carries a version number, I believe, of 1.9.65
presently). OpenOffice has had a DocBook import/export filter for some
time, but I understand it is improved with the new version. (They are
building toward a very near release of OpenOffice.org 2.0).

OpenOffice.org also produces clean .rtf, and the new version uses a
newly-standardized office XML format as modified and approved by
OASIS-Open.org. This format will soon be adopted by various other
office programs, if they are not already using it...including, I
believe, Abiword and KOffice.

David

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