[Bf-docboard] Blender Help ..

[Martin Kleppmann]

Carsten Wartmann wrote:
> Steve Martin writes:
>  > Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Finally some more time... I think such help systems are really  
>  > > valueable for Blender.
>  > 
>  > I agree; however, it appears from the screenshot that it is quite
>  > Windows-specific. Can this project be adapted for the non-
>  > M$ versions of Blender (Linux, Mac, etc)? (I'm quite unfamiliar
>  > with how Windows Help works, so please forgive my ignorance.)
> 
> I guess it is a special MS HTML called chm or such. We should avoid it
> and stick with HTML, which is enough for all kind of dokumentation and
> can be read on all Blender platforms.

Microsoft uses two different types of help files - chm (compressed HTML) and
the old Win3.x hlp format, which is something weird, and not related to HTML
at all. The suggested software generates this hlp format.

The advantage of an integrated (chm/hlp) help system is only that it is
quicker, because there is no need to start a fat web browser software. But taken
the extra work necessary, I suggest that a plain HTML version would do fine.

> AND it can be easily generadet from the XML source the docboard uses!

That is a big argument of course - otherwise one would have to try and
create a stylesheet to output something the Microsoft Help Compiler understands...

Martin

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