Re: Getting experience with expensive tools?

[Janet Swisher <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
> Becky Edmondson wondered: <<Anyone have any creative ideas on how to
> get experience with expensive tools like Flare and Robohelp, when you

> <<Maybe I should be looking at opensource HATs? I can't find anything
> other than industrial-strength stuff like DITA.>>

I am not aware of any open-source HATs. There are open-source tools
like the DITA Open Toolkit that produce help formats. And there are
free or cheap HATs, but they're not open source.

I wrote a couple of blog posts about the latter category a while back:
http://www.janetswisher.com/?itemid=135
http://www.janetswisher.com/?itemid=150

-- 
Visit my blog at: http://www.janetswisher.com
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2009 is your all-in-one authoring and publishing 
solution. Author in Doc-To-Help's XML-based editor,  Microsoft Word or 
HTML and publish to the Web, Help systems or printed manuals. 
http://www.doctohelp.com

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info. 

Please move off-topic discussions to the Chat list, at:
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/listinfo/techwr-l-chat