Good application (not code) documentation tools outputting HTML Help files?

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Good application (not code) documentation tools outputting HTML Help files?

I need to document an application -- not the underlying source code. (I use Doxygen for the internal source code documentation.)

What are good documentation tools for producing HTML Help files? I know about the HTML Help Workshop, but I'm not very good at editing HTML files. I was hoping for something more integrated with a WYSIWYG editor.

I'm not restricting myself to free tools, but free is always nice. ;)

Thanks for your help!

Kevin

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The very best tool I know for this purpose is Help & Manual. It's not free, but it's worth the money.

anon 2009-06-07 15:56:47

Kevin 2009-06-08 05:23:13

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DocBook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook

2009-06-07 19:05:44

Wow. DocBook is a standard and very flexible format -- able to be transformed into all sorts of other documents. That's good. The other nice thing is that there are multiple editors out there -- that's also good; in case one editor stagnates (or it's vendor goes out of buisness), you can always pick another.As far as WYSIWYG editors for DocBook go though, I've only found closed-source editors. Serna XML Editor offers a decent free version for non-corporate use. The professional version is still a little pricey ($559/seat on sale).Does anyone know of a free WYSIWYG DocBook editor?

Kevin 2009-06-08 05:30:40

Ahh... I just found an open source WYSIWYG editor that exports to DocBook. It's called Lyx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX). I'm going to give this a try.

Kevin 2009-06-08 05:42:10

I second DocBook. It just works great! +1

Sklivvz 2009-08-12 12:54:05

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I know the final answer has been given, but what about (DokuWiki)? It has human readable plain text files and an easy to use wiki language. The important thing is: it can export to various formats (odt, html, plain text ...).

Using the Site Export you can easily create an offline - HTML only - version of your documentation. It also supports exporting JavaHelp and EclipseHelp TOCs.

gamma 2009-08-12 12:40:04

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