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Subject:Re: Any open source help software tools? From:Rachel Rawlings <rachel -at- scrivovivo -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:48:13 -0400
Bruce Byfield wrote:
>You're right, of course, but I was curious about whether any open source
>tools existed specifically for creating Windows help files. It might be
>worth an article if there are.
>
>
Ah, naruhodo [1]! Most open-source projects are intended to help people
break out of Microsoft's grip, rather than break in. ;) However, you
might want to look at the open source CHMlib [2] and the API projects
which use it [3]. (As yet, there are no WYSIWYG tools, afaik, in the
open source world to create .chm help files, but you can always use a
good HTML editor like nvu [4] and then use a command-line tool to
transform the HTML to compressed help.
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