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Ditto Tim except: Also might want to check our Boggan, Farkas, and Welinske's original masterpiece,
Developing On Line Help for Windows. I believe they have a Win95 and a Win 3.1x help version. I believe the
publisher is Thompson.
cheers,
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Bill Bledsoe "I had a recent rhinoscopy
Documentation Specialist so I could smell every
Envision Solutions recipe"
bill -at- envision -dot- com Adrian Belew/The Bears
or
intlidox -at- anet-stl -dot- net
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From: Tim Altom[SMTP:taltom -at- IQUEST -dot- NET]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 1996 12:06 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Third-party RoboHelp Books
At 09:56 AM 7/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Howdy, Techwhilers -- Does anybody know of any third-party
>RoboHelp/RoboHelp 95 books? Our Sci-Tech bookstore will order some for us,
>but we can't find any. Is anybody out there writing one? Need some beta
>testers?
I suspect that since RoboHelp is essentially Word with embellishments,
nobody is interested in publishing something specifically about RoboHelp. At
least, I haven't seen anything.
I'd recommend ignoring RoboHelp specifically and reading up on help files in
general, which will include most of what makes RoboHelp hard to use. Jim
Mischel's Developer's Guide to WinHelp is a great geeky book, and
Deaton/Zuback's book on Win95 help is superb for all help purposes, on any
platform. Digest those two books and I'd bet that neither RoboHelp nor any
other help tool will present much of a mystery any longer.
Tim Altom
Vice President, Simply Written, Inc.
317.899.5882 (voice) 317.899.5987 (fax)
FrameMaker support ForeHelp support
Makers of DuoFrame, giving you online help and paper
documentation from a single parent FrameMaker document.
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