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[Sella Rush <sellar -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM>]

Just to avoid confusion, Mary Deaton and Cheryl Lockett-Zubak did
collaborate on the Designing... book, but the Real World... book is by
Cheryl only.  Workwrite (www.workwrite.com) is Cheryl's company; Mary has
her own company called KnowWare (www.kware.com).

I also have the Designing book, which is a terrific (albeit advanced) look
at online help development.  It was also written at least 2 years ago, when
RoboHelp was still at version 4.  It will be of very little use in learning
the current RoboHelp application.

Note:  if you are a beginning help developer, it might be better to start
with Microsoft's Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit, or Developing Online Help
for Windows 95, by Farkas/Boggan/Welinske (which the Deaton/Zuback book
recommends as an intro).  For HTML, there is a relatively new book The
Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit (saw it at Amazon).  I don't know
anything about it.

Now, for someone trying to learn RoboHelp/RoboHTML.  When I first got the
software, I used 3 sources:  the documentation that came with the package,
the guy downstairs (Hi Chuck), and the RoboList, which is a discussion
listserv  hosted by Blue Sky.

Does the trial package come with any sort of help file?  It seems logical
that they would show you how to use the thing.  At least the basics.

Re the list:  see http://www.blue-sky.com/TechSupp/discuss.htm
I'm not sure if this is only for RH owners, but you can always try--also,
anyone has access to the archives.

(Re the guy downstairs:  I'm sure Chuck would love a free trip to Israel,
but it doesn't seem very cost effective.)

Also, I just ran across 2 new books by a guy named Kevin Siegel, RoboHelp
6.0, and RoboHTML.  See
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189176229X/qid=907871447/sr=1-17/002-
4762262-1026058
I have no idea of the quality of these books, and they are pretty pricey.
$45 a pop.  The RHelp book you can get right away apparently, the HTML book
must be special ordered.

Sella Rush
mailto:sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com
Applied Technical Systems (ATS)
Bremerton, Washington
Developers of the CCM Database


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