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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:22:02 +0100
From: kama AT hippo DOT fido DOT de (Karl Heinz Marbaise)
Subject: Re: Windows Help Files
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Hi Eli!

 >> I think however Damien as you  suggested it would be better to
 >> write in HTML as IMHO it's far easier than writing RTF files
 >> and It's a industry standard.
 EZ> It is even better, IMHO, to write it in Texinfo.
This is the best choice.
 EZ> Then you could easily produce the on-line docs in Info,
 EZ> HTML, plain text, PDF,
Also you can get Windows-Help-RTF Files, which can be compiled through
HC31 or HCW into Windows-Help-Files (.HLP).

 EZ> and get a nicely-printed copy, all from the same source.
This is the main reason why I do documentation in Texinfo and nothing
else.

[...]

 EZ> Note that Texinfo-to-HTML conversion is only supported beginning
 EZ> with version 4.0 of Texinfo, whose DJGPP port wasn't
 EZ> released yet.
The HTML conversion of earlier releases (Texinfo 3.9 and 3.12 etc.) was
supported through the texi2html Perl script.

 EZ> But the official GNU distribution supports
 EZ> DJGPP out of the box, so if you need it, you can download
 EZ> texinfo-4.0.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org and
 EZ> build it on your machine.
Or offical from http://texinfo.org

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