Online Help Editors

[Ben]

Thank you. I'm on the same page as you. One team is using RoboHelp to
author, but another team uses MS Word. I like MS Word because there is no
learning curve involved and it has online editing features. I don't think
RoboHelp has that feature.

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:32 AM
To: Ben; techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: Online Help Editors

Ben wrote:

> I'll try this question again. For those of you who edit 
> Online Help written by other authors, I'd like to ask this 
> question. How do you mark up the Help and give it back to 
> authors? Thanks for your insight!

Well, I don't do that, but if I did, I'd be working with the
_source_files_, not the help deliverables. What's the help being
authored in -- FM, Word, RoboHelp, Flare, Notepad, ...? I'd either do
your editing in the authoring application, or I'd create (or have the
authors create) an edit copy in the authoring application (by printing
or creating a PDF or exporting to...) and mark that up. I wouldn't try
to mark up the Help.

HTH!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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