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>Interleaf sounds good for the "on-line manual" type of document, but not for
>context-sensitive on-line help systems. I heard tell you can do stuff like
>that with Frame, too... but I haven't tried it yet.
Yep. At my last employer (i.e., the one I left two weeks ago), on-line help
was built in Frame. The programmers needed to know the relevant file names,
and we had an agreed-upon file naming system, but they were able to develop
context-senitive links into my help documents.
From what I saw while running implanter operations, it seemed to work well.
A double-click on an error message, for example, would open up a file
that gave further details on the meaning of the message, as well as a
suggested solution to the problem.
I don't know exactly how they did this, and I'm not able to trot down the
hall and ask them any longer....
(BTW...I'm back.)
Rick Lippincott
Boston Technology
Wakefield, MA
rjl -at- bostech -dot- com
