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(January 2007)
 

Help and Manual

HelpManual is a help authoring tool that lets you create and edit your online help project and export it to a variety of file formats.

It can output your initial help file into Adobe PDF, HTML Help, plain HTML, Winhelp and other file formats

The Help & Manual user interface
The user interface of Help & Manual looks very much like a compiled help file:

You work with the familiar three-pane window with the table of contents always displayed for navigation. Next to the navigation pane is the topic area - the internal text editor.

Import formats: migration of existing sources
Among the supported import formats are compiled HTML Help, HTML and text files, Winhelp file (source + compiled), Word documents and XML.
To offer a migration path especially for Robohelp users, Help & Manual imports Robohelp X5 (for HTML Help) projects directly.Customizable HTML templates
The WYSIWYG editor for topics is complemented by an HTML editor for topic templates:

topic templates build the "frames" for your topics where Help & Manual inserts the content during help compilation.
Using templates, you not only can fully customize the layout of your help file. It is also possible to export help pages dynamically using variables.
Customizing content with variables
Variables can be used in literally any location in Help & Manual.
Using variables, you can customize the content dynamically and even createdbranded versions of the online help.
Variables are replaced with their actual values during export.
In addition to a list of predefined variables, Help & Manual lets you create as many user defined variables as you need.
Comments and bookmarks
When developing online help, it's often necessary to postpone some details of the online help, that cannot be finished at the moment.

Help & Manual helps you to organize such details.
Design time comments are used to insert editor's annotations in topics.

These notes are not exported. But how do you find them again?
Every topic with comments is automatically added to an internal bookmark list for easy access. Bookmarks are also visible in the table of contents.
 

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