Re: Suggestions for Online Help authoring tool for UNIX platforms

[Sean Wheller <sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za>]

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:07, Laura Chris wrote:
> I am working as a Technical writer for a product based
> company. I have to update an Online Help which is in
> *.hlp format. This is for a UNIX platform. These help
> files have not been updated in ages and the source
> files are in *.rtf formats.
>

I was not aware that there is a hlp format for Unix, or perhaps I did not 
understand.

Best option, IMHO, for a headless *nix system is to produce man or info pages. 
We produce these by transforming Docbook XML to man or info.

If your *nix system has a window manager and or desktop, then checkout the 
help viewer supplied with the desktop or consider using plain HTML via a 
bowser. In Gnome Yelp does a fair job of presenting Docbook XML and KDE Help 
Center has the same qualities. On most sysems you will find that in order to 
get your help displayed in the help system, you will need to create OMF files 
for registration with tools like ScrollKeeper.

Hope this helps.

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Sean Wheller
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sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za
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