Re: [Web-erp-developers] Help

[Olwen W. <ol...@ha...>]

Have you considered trying to save it with Open Office.  It may do a 
better job of saving a clean copy (I haven't looked at this myself)


skaill wrote:
> I've been thinking about the best way to not only get the manual into 
> the online help for various scripts but also how to best maintain it in 
> the future as the system evolves.  I'm thinking the best way would be to 
> convert the manual to html since the online help needs to be formatted 
> in html also.
>  
> Unfortunately if I try saving the manual to html in Word the document 
> saved ends up xml plus it has all kinds of css.  None of this is 
> needed.  From what I see only fonts (size mainly), bold, underline, 
> returns, lists and tables are needed for the entire manual so a help css 
> is overkill.
>  
> Now, I can sit and copy/format those 70 pages of manual into html 
> manually and don't mind doing it but at the end I need to know that we 
> can stick to the html version and not the .doc version of the manual.  
> Keeping up two versions as well as the online will be too much and the 
> html version, I believe, is the one that makes sense.
>  
> Once I have the entire manual manually converted to html then copy and 
> pasting to the online help will be simple.  It will continue to be much 
> simpler in the future as well when the manual ends up being modified.
>  
> Note that going with html means we can also readily supply another link 
> called something like Online Manual that will display the entire manual.
>  
> Any comments/suggestions from anyone?  Phil, please let me know if this 
> is a good way to proceed.
>  
> Steve