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Subject:RE: Combining two help files to a single one From:"Glenn Maxey" <glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 May 2001 08:57:22 -0600
Servus Winfried,
(Wegen anderen Leute auf der Liste schreibe ich auf Englisch...)
David Knopf's suggestion about using Mif2Go is certainly a good one.
However, what is the goal? Do you need to maintain the integrity of the
individual help files?
For example, if you have two (or more) programs in a suite that each have
their own help files, you wouldn't want to just combine them. They would
still need to be called with their own names from their associated programs.
However, they could relate to one another in that you would want to know
about the features of the other program from the help files.
To do this latter option:
1) Choose one of the CNT files to be the master. (It can be retain its name,
but I'll call it "master.cnt" to clarify it.)
2) Add an include statement to the master CNT for the other CNT file.
Something like ":include other.cnt". This needs to be placed where it makes
the most logical sense.
3) In the HPJ file for the both help file, change the "cnt=" statement from
"CNT=other.cnt" to "CNT=master.cnt".
4) Recompile the help.
Now, whenever you start up the help for one program, the table of contents
and index will reflect entries from both.
Fragen? Stehe ich gerne zur Verfügung.
Glenn Maxey
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
Tel. +1 303.223.5164
Fax. +1 303.223.5275
glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com
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> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-58477 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Reng,
> Winfried
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:43 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Combining two help files to a single one
>
> I want to combine two Winhelp files to a single one.
> Is this possible? How?
>
> I use FrameMaker for authoring and Mif2Go to convert
> to RTF and MS Help Workshop to compile the help files.
>
> I guess I have to somehow create just a combined
> cnt file that links to the single cnt files. What´s
> the syntax for that?
>
> Is there anything else that I have to observe (besides
> checking the browse sequence numbers)?
>
> I checked several web sites about help authoring but
> didn´t find anything that would help.
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