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Subject:Re: best simple free HAT for CHM From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> To:John Cornellier <John -dot- Cornellier -at- autodesk -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:18:58 -0700
If it's tiny and simple, write it in HTML and then use the microsoft help compiler (free) to build a CHM. You don't need a HAT.
That said I found the FAR tools to be very helpful when I was hand-building CHMs.
Laura
On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:02 AM, John Cornellier wrote:
> quick! need to throw together a tiny simple CHM, haven't done this in a few years, what's a good HAT?
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