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I'm doing pretty plain-vanilla context-senstitive WebHelp. At this
point I've got Flare's doing pretty much everything I need it to. We
have some open bugs but nothing we can't work around.
My major outstanding issue is that Flare doesn't generate named
destinations in PDFs:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Now I'm curious what sorts of things you're doing with your Help? And
> why you think they're useful?
>
> I tend to create no-frills Help, as I've learned from some previous
> bad experiences that too many bells and whistles it makes it harder
> for the next writer (sometimes me, sometimes not) to figure out how to
> maintain what you've built. But maybe I'm ignoring things that might
> add value to my users that I should be including.
>
> It may be time for me to learn some new tricks!
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>> In the past dozen years I've created online help using HTML Help
>> Workshop (with and without FAR), RoboHelp for Word, RoboHTML,
>> FrameMaker + WebWorks, FrameMaker + MIF2Go, Document!X, and Flare, and
>> evaluated various other HATs.
>>
>> At this point, learning another HAT is no big deal. My main concern
>> with any tool is whether it does, or can be made to do, the things I
>> need it to do.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if the difference between the different responses (love or
>>> hate Flare) comes down to whether or not you have created Help/used a
>>> HATT before? ...
>
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