Re: [Web-erp-developers] Help

[skaill <sk...@ro...>]

Thanks Phil.  I guess my last email can be disregarded ;)

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

  Phil
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    Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:50 AM
    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