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Subject:RE: Combining two help files to a single one From:"David Knopf" <david -at- knopf -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 May 2001 07:13:43 -0700
Reng, Winfried wrote:
| I want to combine two Winhelp files to a single one.
| Is this possible? How?
|
| I use FrameMaker for authoring and Mif2Go to convert
| to RTF and MS Help Workshop to compile the help files.
|
| I guess I have to somehow create just a combined
| cnt file that links to the single cnt files. What´s
| the syntax for that?
|
| Is there anything else that I have to observe (besides
| checking the browse sequence numbers)?
|
| I checked several web sites about help authoring but
| didn´t find anything that would help.
I don't use mif2go, but I imagine it is the same as WWP in this respect. The
easiest solution is to create a single FrameMaker .book file containing all
the chapters from both books, as well as a generated TOC and generated
index. Then convert that .book file to WinHelp via mif2go.
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