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Re: Help Book


  • Subject: Re: Help Book
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:40:03 -0800
  • Thread-topic: Help Book

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:09:12 -0600, Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
said:
>iWeb seems to have some peculiarities, but I think I can design a Help
>Book with it. After a couple of hours, I finally discovered why I
>can't delete the #@%$! navigation menu, but I can turn it off. One of
>the peculiarities is that iWeb does not seem to know anything about a
>source document for a site. I had to create an "iWeb Domain" document
>and iWeb gets confused and may open this document incorrectly if you
>just launch iWeb. So I make sure I double-click the domain.

In the talk that I gave at the WritersUA Conference in Portland, Oregon on
how to create a Help Book, I did in fact use iWeb to generate the help, just
to see if it could be done - really this was kind of a joke, though. Unless
you are totally unwilling to learn any HTML whatever, or you are making a
genuine dot-Mac iWeb site, I would avoid iWeb if I were you. All my Help
Books (and I write them professionally) are made with RubyFrontier, a tool
of my own devising. But anything that makes real HTML will do.

You can listen to a recording of my talk, and/or view the slides; there is a
link here (scroll down to "Developing Help for the Mac"):

http://www.tidbits.com/matt/cv/computercareer.html#lec

>I've also noticed that some of the features available via iWeb work in
>Safari, but not in Help Viewer.

Oh, I don't think I believe that one. WebKit is WebKit. In fact, you have it
backwards; Help Viewer can do *more* (like, as I demonstrate in my talk, the
user can click a link that runs an AppleScript - can't do that in Safari).
m.

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A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool!
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AppleScript: the Definitive Guide - Second Edition!
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