21 Sep
2007
21 Sep
'07
7 a.m.
On 9/21/07, Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There was a win32 chm compiler and example help file
submitted to
wine-patches a while back. Feel free to import that and the htmlhelp
dlls and viewer. Your going to need it anyway to be compatible with
Windows documentation. Its pseudo-html source so exporting to
PDF/ODF/DOCX/etc should not be too hard.
Oh and just to weigh in, not being an active developer, no one should
care what I say but.....ReactOS used docbook before and we hated it. I
used to also have to use docbook for my job and I hated it. Wine used
to use SGML for docs and we hated it. Wiki's are the way to go. Make
it easy for the non-programers to write a good chunk of the
documentation and translations. Save your developers time by not
requiring even more oddball tools with cryptic commands and syntax.
Use a wiki with an export feature and export it to a standard open
format that you can plug in to HTMLhelp later.
Did I mention I hate docbook?
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Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo