On 7 Jul 2007 at 12:30, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 10:47 AM 7/7/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Well, Microsoft's HTML Help has to be coded for a certain browser, > as >it runs using an embedded IE component for rendering. > > This is not, I believe strict MS HTML Help. It's built using a > product from MadCap Software (madcapsoftware.com). It works just fine > in Firefox. It's just that when you hit F1 in Finale, it will always > open in IE/Safari.
Meant to include these in my previous reply: I think that the F1 issue is a programming error by MM -- they hardcoded the browsers, something which is harder on Windows than to just use the ShellExecute API to open the content in the default browser. I also looked at the MadCap website, and the product looks awfully good to me, at least on the surface. It certainly offers the ability to deliver the content in a wide variety of formats, something that's necessary for a company like MM that has to support two OS platforms. It makes me wonder what the problems were that Sibelius encountered, and if they were indeed using MadCap. However, I'm not convinced they were using the same tools, as the Help file for the Sib4 demo (which is all I have) has this for the GENERATOR meta tag: Quadralay WebWorks Publisher 2003 for FrameMaker 8.0.8.2296 Certainly the results that are produced are completely underwhelming. How do the Finale 2008 help files compare? Are they as bad as the Sibelius help? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
