RE: Trends in Help authoring?

[David Demyan <ddemyan -at- coppercom -dot- com>]

Geoff Hart said:

<<Over the next few weeks, my job will be to develop an efficient and 
bug-free process for creating source text in Word (for review and 
revision) and using that text to create an HTMLHelp system that can be 
updated by simply updating the Word source files and recompiling. Not 
sure that's possible, but here's hoping! Advice from techwr-l welcomed, 
and I'll eventually post a summary of what I've found to work so others 
can benefit.>>

Geoff, the most efficient and reliable way to do what you need that
I know is WebWorks Publisher for Word. Allows you to keep the source
file (a Word document) intact and export to any variety of help
system you want. It's not cheap, but it works well.

I am not affiliated with Quadralay, but I have used their WebWorks
Publisher for FrameMaker and have found it to work very well. See
http://www.webworks.com.

Dave Demyan
Senior Technical Writer
Mendem Concord, Inc. (http://www.mendem.com)
(on assignment at CopperCom)

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