Re: Help Book authoring tool?
Re: Help Book authoring tool?
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:03:23PM +0100, Luc Van Bogaert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to solicite some recommendations for an authoring tool to create help books. I'm looking for a preferably freeware application, with a decent html editor.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Luc Van Bogaert
Once I found such an application somewhere at a Caltech website if I recall
correctly. I didn't find it all that easy to use, and I can't find it
again.
Writing help books is intimidating at first, especially if you're not into
writing HTML, but once you understand a bit about the recommended structure
of help files, it isn't hard to put them together without a special app. I
like to write plain text, so I use VIM with markdown, and a Haskell
application Pandoc to convert to html. There are undoubtedly numerous
other combinations to do the same thing.
There are free HTML editors out there, if that's more to your taste than
plain text with markup. I tried Amaya, as I recall, but went back to
Vim/Pandoc.
There is an Apple help-authoring mailing list. Perhaps you should
subscibe. Fairly low traffic.
Best,
John Velman
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