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Subject:RE: Word up From:Paul Hanson <PHanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:18:51 -0600
I just uncovered more research:
(Arranged in alphabetical order)
* Frame 5.5.6 book to RoboHELP. I know this is an old problem but
has anyone found a truly acceptable way to make a RoboHELP WinHelp
project from a Frame book? I have found some workarounds but am not
terribly happy with them.
* I, for one, absolutely abhor FrameMaker's help. You can't even
type in a word to search the index, you simply have to "read" through
it.
* I'm a big Frame promoter and (though I may delude myself) I
consider myself a power user... yet I use Word (with the free MS
WinHelp4 plug-in) to develop help. I also bought a copy of ForeHelp
(which was the one HAT available at the time (early '97) that did not
rely on Word, *and* supported context-sensitive help). Due to our slow
poke purchasing department, ForeHelp arrived two weeks after my start
date for the project. Holding my nose, I dove in with Word, and I've
used it ever since. Frame, IMHO, hold out little advantage over Word
for on-line help development, except it's quite nearly bomb-proof as an
application, which is not my opinion of Word. I structure my projects
carefully so that a) they're maintainable, and b) a Word crash is not
going to set me back very far. For a medium-sized project (200-300
major topics), I use as many as 10 .rtf files, which are organized
according to the divisions of the software being documented.
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