On 26. Oct 2004, at 19:47, Ian G. Gillespie wrote:
Does anyone know of a good program that one can use to create a help file and a PDF manual without maintaining two sets of documents?
LaTeX does really nice PDF and with tex4ht I think the HTML result is also reasonable good.
Another option is DocBook, though the PDF is not very nice when using the freeware converters available.
Basically you just want to settle on some generic markup language that allows you to convert it to whatever format you desire.
Which markup language is best suited probably depends mostly of what type of documentation you're writing, i.e. is it heavily interlinked, using all sorts of "typegraphic" features, footnotes, images etc.
Kind regards Allan
On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 08:50PM, Allan Odgaard ML@Top-House.DK wrote:
On 26. Oct 2004, at 19:47, Ian G. Gillespie wrote:
Does anyone know of a good program that one can use to create a help file and a PDF manual without maintaining two sets of documents?
LaTeX does really nice PDF and with tex4ht I think the HTML result is also reasonable good.
I also like hyperlatex ( http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net/ ). This is what I use for my class manual. If you want to see what it looks like. Select "notes" in html or pdf here : http://www.phys.umontreal.ca/~mousseau/cours.html
Normand Mousseau
According to Allan Odgaard:
Another option is DocBook, though the PDF is not very nice when using the freeware converters available.
Agreed :( I originally settled on DocBook as it is a rich DTD but I'm very disappointed by the output.
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