Re: Help systems

[Sean Wheller <sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za>]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 14:54, Broberg, Mats wrote:
> Seasons greetings!

Compliments.

>
> We plan to build an application that transforms XML files to the
> necessary topic files, project files, TOC files and index files that are
> needed to compile help systems for our PC programs in 21 languages. We
> have looked into HTML Help at first, but the more we dig the worse it
> seems to be with regards to language support.

You may want to take a look at Yelp from the GNOME project. Many ideas can be 
taken form there.

>
> Does anyone have experience of creating JavaHelp or MS Help help
> systems? Those two systems seem promising with regards to
> internationalization and language support.

Just use Docbook and most of your production prayers are answered.

The rest needs a bit of twisting, turning, squeezing, and some nifty work on 
Google.

Hope this helps,

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Sean Wheller
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