My 10 cents': You could reduce it all to a half-dozen or so HTML source file. This would allow you to concentrate on improving the documentation rather than spend time collating the different files and formats and considerbly simplify things for the user too. The current HLP file's page on expressions has a lot of room for improvement.
5-6 HTML files with anchors instead of separate pages can be readily compiled into a chm and easily converted to RTF by importing into Word. Or better, integrated into a single Word DOC, exported as HTML, and then cleaned up with Dreamweaver's "clean up Word HTML" command, and finallly exported to RTF with HTML2RTF. The reason I put the number at around 6 is because 1 file would be too big for an HTML editor to handle. -----Original Message----- From: brucexs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bruce > Just a reminder that I'm still keen to proof read > the source file(s) (.rtf I presume) for PowerPro.hlp > for the next non-beta release. This is tricky as there are actually three sources which I maintain manually: the .doc, the .rtf, and a set of html files for the chm. You would need to go through all three and make the changes in each. The html files comprise a separate file per topic, with obscure names assigned by a mechanized converter, so you need a text search program if you are looking for specific text to change to keep in parallel with the rtf. You also need to use simple HTML tags like <br> to keep the formatting right. Although there is a program to convert rtf help to chm html files, it is not perfect, and I had to do manual fixups after the original conversion. So I don't want to do this mechanized conversion again. Would you want to do this triple editing with work version being HTML. > > Timing matters: I'd need the files some days before > the release, but it would be better to wait until > you have described most of the new features. > > You could email them to me in an attached zip to > alanmartin3 at bigpond dot com > or you could upload them to the Files section > and let me know. > > Thanks > Alan Martin Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/JV_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
