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Subject:Re: On-line help and manuals From:Joyce Flaherty <flahertj -at- SMTPGW -dot- LIEBERT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:50:45 EST
> Dan Glovier
> dan -at- tsh -dot- com WANTS TO KNOW:
>
> We are developing our first Windows<insert trademark symbol
> product, and I am fortunate enough to be developing the
> on-line help. I am using Doc-To-Help as our help tool.
> In a perfect world, the on-line help document and the manual
> document would be separate beasts. However, due to time, staff
> size (2), and all of the other regular inhibitors, we are
> trying to determine whether or not these documents can be
> (or should be) one in the same. Whatcha think?
Your product is:
- help file
- possible online manual | one or both
- possible hardcopy manual |
You don't specify in your message: online, hardcopy, or both.
I have used Doc-To-Help to produce an online manual quickly.
Then I schedule the manual for hypertext conversion. Other
packages offer more than Doc-To-Help (and relatives) for the
online documentation development effort. Other DTP packages
offer much more than Doc-To-Help (and relatives) for hardcopy
out. === I would bet real money Bill Gates is fixin' to change
all that. ===
