Re: Legacy help projects and job openings

["Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM>]

> Here's my idea if the text content of the Help will truly be the same
> in
> all three versions:  Create three bitmap folders, each containing the
> graphics specific to one version of the interface.  Use the same names
> for the graphics that will display in the same place in the Help; in
> other words, each folder will have graphics named bitmap01.bmp,
> bitmap02.bmp, and so on.  Then use project setup to point to the
> correct
> bitmap folder for the version you want to compile.  If you keep all
> the
> names the same, you shouldn't have to edit the Help source files at
> all.
>  I haven't actually tried this myself, but in theory it should work!
>
> Kim Cramer
> mailto:kcramer -at- ncslink -dot- com
> Sr. Information Developer
> NCS Education, Mesa AZ
> *************
>
I've done it.  It works fine.  I was reusing the help for one product in
another product (that built on top of the first one).  The text was fine
(it described stand-alone modules); however, the hierarchy diagrams
differed.  Therefore, I made a second directory for the hierarchy
diagrams of the second product.  I assigned the same names for each
substitute diagram and specified the applicable bitmap directory in the
HPJ files.

Mike Wing


Michael Wing (mailto:mjwing -at- ingr -dot- com)
Principal Technical Writer
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama
http://www.ingr.com/iss/products/mapping/
(205) 730-7250

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