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Re: Is anyone developing help for Eclipse-based products?

Subject: Re: Is anyone developing help for Eclipse-based products?
From: Chuck Martin <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:43:58 -0700


Roger Bell wrote:

Is there anyone who is developing help for a plug-in or application based on
the open source Eclipse platform? I am working on such a project and am
using RoboHelp X5 and FrontPage 2003 for most of the help development.

However, we have a snag since there does not appear to be a tool for
developing InfoPops for the Eclipse platform. If anyone has suggestions, I
welcome any input.


I will be very soon. I am definitely curious how you're going to use RH (and why on Earth you'd use FrontPage!). The book "The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse" has a woefully short chapter on help that seems to contain no more content (just rewritten) that the sole article about Eclipse help on the Eclipse site (http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Online%20Help%20for%202_0/help1.htm). This article itself is incomplete; indeed, it is labelled "Part 1," with no "Part 2" in sight. (It was written 2 years ago.)

Asd a side note, I'm not exactly comforted by an article on a site that posts pages with spaces in the filenames, requireing URL coding to display them.)

Bottom line, I don't know how you'd set up RH to output the Eclipse-specific navigation files, although the content (of both the standalone help and the InfoPop files) are plain HTML.

I expected I'd probably be authoring content in Dreamweaver, and doing the TOCs by hand, or maybe convincing the company that buying a product such as XMLSpy might be worth the outlay.

The InfoPops themselves are controlled by a separate XML file that works like a map file: it contains both context IDs and references to content files.


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