Re: Industry Standard Programs

["Char James-Tanny" <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> That's a good point and I should have dug deeper than the Technical
>  Writing industry. Okay, I meant the software industry.

Disclaimer: As a Microsoft Help MVP, I help maintain MSHelpWiki, and I
am responsible for HAT-Matrix.com.

Actually, the tool you'll select will depend on how you want to work,
what outputs you want to produce, what features matter to you, and a
slew of other things. "Industry standard" won't help if the tool
that's selected doesn't do what's needed.

If you go to http://www.mshelpwiki.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=AvailableTools,
you can get a list of just about all Help authoring tools.

If you go to http://www.hat-matrix.com, you can produce a report that
compares the features of some HATs. (Not all HATs are listed on the
matrix.)

If you go to http://www.hat-matrix.com/blank_report.html, you can
print a blank report of all features listed in the matrix to create
your own report. (You'll then want to look at the different sites and
possible download the trial versions to see which features each HAT
includes.) And if there are features that you want that aren't listed
on the matrix, add them to the blank report (and feel free to send me
an email with that list!)

Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~ http://www.helpstuff.com
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