Re: [Web-erp-developers] Help

[Daintrees <p.d...@pa...>]

I use open office - will produce a html version and pop it on =
sourceforge.

Phil
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  Subject: [Web-erp-developers] Help


  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