On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:03:23PM +0100, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to solicite some recommendations for an authoring tool to create > help books. I'm looking for a preferably freeware application, with a decent > html editor. > > Thanks, > > -- > Luc Van Bogaert
Once I found such an application somewhere at a Caltech website if I recall correctly. I didn't find it all that easy to use, and I can't find it again. Writing help books is intimidating at first, especially if you're not into writing HTML, but once you understand a bit about the recommended structure of help files, it isn't hard to put them together without a special app. I like to write plain text, so I use VIM with markdown, and a Haskell application Pandoc to convert to html. There are undoubtedly numerous other combinations to do the same thing. There are free HTML editors out there, if that's more to your taste than plain text with markup. I tried Amaya, as I recall, but went back to Vim/Pandoc. There is an Apple help-authoring mailing list. Perhaps you should subscibe. Fairly low traffic. Best, John Velman _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
