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 Message-ID: References: Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp X-Comment-To: (Eli Zaretskii) Organization: Fido.DE domain gateway (Moving Bits e.V. / IN e.V.) Lines: 35 X-Gateway: FIDO morannon.fido.de [FIDOGATE 4.3.6] X-FTN-Tearline: FEddy 1.4.03 via ifcico X-FTN-Origin: http://www.fido.de/~kama/fte/fte.html FTE Mirror (242:1000/1.18) X-FTN-Domain: Z242 AT fidode X-FTN-Seen-By: 1000/1 4900/99 X-FTN-Path: 1000/1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 -- Jabba dabba dooohhh e-mail: kama AT hippo DOT fido DOT de 'til next mail. Internet: http://www.fido.de/~kama/ Karl Heinz 7:-) Fidonet: 2:2452/110.18 Voice: +49 241 962380