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Questions tagged [help-authoring]

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Any free alternative to Robohelp?

Any free alternative to Robohelp? Prefer open source Need some sort of online help authoring tool for an open source project.
Henry
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Help generation tool with MS Word and C# xmldoc support

I'm looking for a help/documentation generation tool which would satisfy such requirements: it should support xmldoc comment produced by c# compiler or (even better) directly support sandcastle it should support importing of MS Word documents. it…
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Cross-platform end-user-help authoring tools

What are some good authoring tools for creating cross-platform help files for end-users? (Our application is using the Qt framework, if that makes any difference.) Note: I'm not interested in internal API documentation--we're using doxygen for…
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How to set default page in HTML help workshop

I have created a project in HTML help workshop. When I open the help (/chm) application, I could see table of contents. By default, first entry in the file is selected. However I couldn't see the corresponding page data instead I am able to see…
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How are you integrating help into your WPF application. Any recommendations?

The question says it all really. If you are writing a WPF application, how are you integrating the application help? What is the state of play in mid-2013? It seems that there is no clear answer to this from an afternoon with a search engine, but…
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Offline wiki-like authoring tool

Does anyone know if there is a help authoring tool out there that can produce help documentation for a software product that looks like a wiki? We are currently using the Confluence wiki engine, which is absolutely brilliant and we were wondering if…
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How to set the default page for a .CHM file in HTML Help Workshop?

When I open the help (.chm) application, I could see table of contents. By default, the first entry in the file is selected, however I couldn't see the corresponding page data. Instead, I see "This program cannot display the web page" (the default…
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Google Help system

I would like to create an HTML help for one of my application, based on the Google help system. Does anyone know whether the Google Help system is available outside Google corp? If yes, how to obtain it. What is the authoring tool? Is it an open …
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Is there a free Help Authoring tool available for Eclipse?

I need to write on-line help (Eclipse help format) for an Eclipse plugin. I tried out the evaluation of Help Composer that comes as part of RCP Developer from Instantiations and it pretty much does what I am looking for. However at $500 per license…
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Adobe RoboHelp 9: What's the best way to make more than one conditional build available to the same application?

I am creating a WebHelp help system with RoboHelp 9. This will be context-sensitive, online help. The software product that the system is written for has three user "contexts" that are mostly similar, but have slight differences. My goal is to…
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Dose anyone know Help Authoring Tools for User Guide and Source document?

I have a larg scale program and I have to create a perfect User Guide and a Source document for it. I have used 2 difrent tools for user guide and source document in Java. Now I need some tools that have these tow option in one(Source Document…
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Documentation tool - Search into HTML files from django templates

I am working on a website using django. I have a documentation section with plain HTML files (i.e. not related to the django databases, just text). Those files have been converted from LaTeX to HTML. I would like to add a search bar into my…
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wysiwyg user help authoring tool to work with qthelp?

We need to compile to QtHelp (.qch and .qhc). I'm wondering what tool/toolchain would be easiest for this? We'd like a WYSIWYG help authoring tool as our starting point, then run the output from that through whatever we have to to get QtHelp. We…
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Creating Multiple TOC for my ROBOHELP

I am creating a robo help for my project and want to create a role based robo help i.e some pages will be hidden for some roles. For that I created multiple Table Of Contents. My question is how to call multiple TOC from my Java project depending on…
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Can I output csh.xml via Docbook Export in Robohelp 10

Can I output a context sensitive help file, "Project_Name_csh.xml" via Docbook Export in Robohelp 10? The file is not generated when using the 'export project to DocBook' Handler from XML_Output SSL. However, it is generated when using 'Export…
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