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Subject:Re: Online/Offline help From:Art Campbell <artc -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 13 Sep 1993 14:34:02 GMT
Mark Levinson <mark -at- matis -dot- ingr -dot- com> writes:
>I saw an ad in the latest STC quarterly for a product called
>Doc-to-Help. I liked its claim to be able to produce online
>and printed help in separate formats from the same file, and
>with provision for designating sections as online-only or
>printed-only. Does anyone have experience with Doc-to-Help?
Yeah. It's a Word for Windows extension. It does work, well,
but it's a memory hog (due to W4W limitations, support says).
It automates almost all of the laborious work involved in producing
a formatted .RTF file for the help compiler.
The biggest downside is it's inability to cross-reference to other
files, IMHO. Also, it glues you to an inflexible format structure.
But still, it's worlds better than doing Windows help without it.
I'm planning on using it to complete 80-90 percent of my current
project, then finishing the bells and whistles by hand.
If I had my first pick of platforms, I'd stay with FrameMaker because
it's more powerful (and also includes the conditional text feature),
but I haven't figured out a good way to write a compilable .RTF with it
yet.
Art
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>Mark L. Levinson, SEE Technologies, Box 544, Herzlia, Israel
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