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

Subject: Re: Is anyone developing help for Eclipse-based products?
From: Martha J Davidson <editrix -at- nemasys -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:24:47 -0700


At 11:58 AM 8/4/2004 -0600, Lisa Wright wrote:

Roger,
I hope you'll post any offlist replies you receive. I am also very interested in how you might do this. Although I'm not working on Eclipse programs currently, the company I was working for last year was thinking about writing their apps as Eclipse plug-ins. I continue to do some one-off projects for them, so the information would definitely come in handy.

I've been corresponding offlist with Roger; my company has converted our major product to be an Eclipse plug-in and I've been single-sourcing the help using FrameMaker and WebWorks 2003 to generate Eclipse help.

I've written a short document that describes the FrameMaker and WebWorks template changes I made to generate the XML files for the Eclipse TOC and for Infopops (Eclipse's form of context-sensitive help), which I can sent to anyone who might find it useful.

I learned most of what I know about Eclipse-style help from Eclipse's own help (which describes how to write help for Eclipse) and from the following articles:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-echelp/
http://tinyurl.com/3mfhn (requires a free login to the ACM portal)

martha

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editrix -at- nemasys -dot- com

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