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- From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
- Subject: Doc-To-Help
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.161106.6005@mydual.uucp>
- Keywords: Windows WexTech RTF HELP
- Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
- Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:11:06 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- I just saw Doc-To-Help demonstrated at the Windows & OS/2 conference in
- Boston. It looks good, seems fast, and may help some people.
-
- D2H v. 1.1 is an add-in to Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 that takes a
- text document and provides formatting via style sheets to produce
- printable manual pages. Working from that file, D2H creates the Rich
- Text Format (RTF) file and the project file needed to use the Microsoft
- Help Compiler, then compiles the help file.
-
- It helps you index the text and provides the tools to do styles, page
- layout, floating footers, margin notes and cross-references.
-
- Decisions about the hypertext linking are automatically derived from the
- styles assigned to the document plus additions you deliberately make.
- You can control the content of the document and the hypertext separately
- if you wish.
-
- To author, you need Windows, Word for Windows, and Doc-To-Help; to read,
- you need only Windows.
-
- You could consider this as a tool to convert linear text to hypertext,
- but the result may depend critically on the organization of the original
- document. It is reasonably fast--crunched 18 megabytes of document to
- hypertext in 2 hours of machine time--so maybe it lets you do more than
- one draft in the time available.
-
- WexTech has a demo disk and brochures available. Contact them at:
- VOX 212-949-9595, FAX 212-949-4007. Current version is 1.1, list price
- is $295.
-
- I would be interested in the comments of persons who have used the
- product since I only saw an expert use it.
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- Kirtland H. Olson olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
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