Creating Uncompiled Online Help

[marsha.lofthous]

Noob question:




Using Epic Editor, the publishing engine, and a standard DTD/schema (such as DITA), can I product uncompiled HTML-based help? In the information I've been able to locate on the Web, it looks like I'm limited to compiled (.chm) help.



Marsha


Marsha Lofthouse


Motorola, Inc., Public Safety Applications


The Americas Group - Content Development


Boulder Design Center


Marsha.Lofthouse@motorola.com


303.527.4178

[gary.t.nadeau]

I had success using HTML Help Workshop and de-compiling the
existing Epic help to add in custom help for our folks.

Not sure if that helps...

Gary Nadeau
lang=en-us>Tech Lead - Data Support

Maintenance Information
Systems
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - St.
Louis
Phone: (314)233-5231
Email:
gary.t.nadeau@boeing.com

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From: Lofthouse Marsha-PT1816

Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006
1:34 PM
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Subject: Creating
Uncompiled Online Help

Noob question:


Using Epic Editor, the publishing engine, and a
standard DTD/schema (such as DITA), can I product uncompiled HTML-based help? In
the information I've been able to locate on the Web, it looks like I'm limited
to compiled (.chm) help.


Marsha
Marsha
Lofthouse
Motorola, Inc.,
Public Safety Applications
The
Americas Group - Content Development
Boulder Design Center
Marsha.Lofthouse@motorola.com
303.527.4178


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[ebenton]

<br /><br />You can create SGML/XML help files by<br />creating a separate file with the name of the tag as the filename (e.g. “para.xml”)<br />and placing them in a folder called help within your doctype folder. You<br />can create them using any DTD you like. If there is such a folder with files<br />named this way in your doctype directory, clicking F1 in a document instance<br />will bring up the file associated with that tag in a separate window, or if<br />there is no help for that tag, there will be a message declaring such. So<br />you get context-sensitive help this way. It’s not HTML, but it is<br />fairly useful for not being compiled HTML.<br /><br /><br /><br />This worked for Epic 4.3 and<br />earlier. I am not sure about later versions.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />From: Lofthouse<br />Marsha-PT1816 <br /><br />Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:34<br />PM<br /><br />To: adepters@arbortext.com<br /><br />Subject: Creating Uncompiled<br />Online Help<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Noob<br />question: <br /><br /><br /><br />Using<br />Epic Editor, the publishing engine, and a standard DTD/schema (such as DITA),<br />can I product uncompiled HTML-based help? In the information I've been able to<br />locate on the Web, it looks like I'm limited to compiled (.chm) help.<br /><br /><br /><br />Marsha<br /><br /><br />Marsha<br />Lofthouse <br /><br />Motorola, Inc., Public Safety Applications <br /><br />The Americas Group - Content Development&lt;font&lt;br/&gt; size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"&gt; <br /><br /> Boulder Design Center<br /><br /><br />Marsha.Lofthouse@motorola.com <br /><br />303.527.4178 <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />