TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: Results of "Tool" survey From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:03:28 -0800
At 01:23 PM 11/14/96 PST, Deborah Meltzer wrote:
>But I also have the impression that if you want to end up with both print
>documentation and online help systems, a tool such as RoboHelp may be a
>better way to go. Forehelp can accomplish this as well, but the print
>documentation may require more format tweaking using Forehelp than it would
>using RoboHelp. Because RoboHelp is designed as a single sourcing tool for
>both print and online documentation and Forehelp is designed primarily as a
>help authoring tool, I would actually hope that this was the case.
Having used both Doc-to-Help and RoboHelp, I would say that both tools can
produce paper as well as WinHelp files. Doc-to-Help favors print output with
Windows help as the secondary emphasis; RoboHelp favors Windows help with
print output as the secondary emphasis. I have never used ForeHelp.
--Wayne Douglass
===================================================
Verity, Inc. Email: wayned -at- verity -dot- com
894 Ross Drive Telephone: 408-542-2139
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Facsimile: 408-542-2040
===================================================
