Re: EUPHORIA Digest - 13 Aug 1998 to 14 Aug 1998 (#1998-89)
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:00:28 -0400, Nate Brooman
<nateb at LOG.ON.CA> wrote:
>Hello.
>I've heard of how you make help files (.HLP), and I was having problems =
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>with the Help "Compiler" that I downloaded off of Microsoft's site. It =3D
>says to make a document in Word 6.0 compatible text. Well, WordPad's my =
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>closest bet, so I typed a sentence and saved it. It kept coming up with =
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>errors. I haven't the slightest clue, but I do know one thing. Microsoft=
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>doesn't like you using other word processors to produce help files =
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Actually, what you need to do for all the help-building software
that I've seen is to save your documents as .RTF files (Rich Text
=46ormat). Even having done that, there's a Word template that
comes with the MS Help Compiler (or should) that provides styles
that will ensure that links, anchors, popups, et cetera, are all
formatted the way MS does their help files.
The latest version of the Help Compiler also supposedly supports
the new HTMLHelp format, which offers another possibility for a
source format.
--
Jeff Zeitlin
jeff.zeitlin at mail.execnet.com
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