help-authoring

Any free alternative to Robohelp?

Any free alternative to Robohelp? Prefer open source Need some sort of online help authoring tool for an open source project. ...

Help generation tool with MS Word and C# xmldoc support

Hello. I'm looking for a help/documentation generation tool which would satisfy such requirements: it should support xmldoc comment produced by c# compiler or (even better) directly support sandcastle it should support importing of MS Word documents. it should support creating links from conceptual documentation to reference documenta...

Is there a free Help Authoring tool available for Eclipse?

I need to write on-line help (Eclipse help format) for an Eclipse plugin. I tried out the evaluation of Help Composer that comes as part of RCP Developer from Instantiations and it pretty much does what I am looking for. However at $500 per license it's way overkill and over budget for my needs. Surely there must be some other tool for ...

Google Help system

I would like to create an HTML help for one of my application, based on the Google help system. Does anyone know whether the Google Help system is available outside Google corp? If yes, how to obtain it. What is the authoring tool? Is it an open source tool? If not, is there some authoring tool with the same flavour? The type of help ...

how to set default page in HTML help work shop

Hi I have created a project in HTML help workshop. When I open the help (/chm) application, I could see table of contents. By default, first entry in the file is selected ,however I couldn't see the corresponding page data instead I am able to see "This program cannot display the web page"(default error message that comes in IE7).The pa...

Cross-platform end-user-help authoring tools

What are some good authoring tools for creating cross-platform help files for end-users? (Our application is using the Qt framework, if that makes any difference.) Note: I'm not interested in internal API documentation--we're using doxygen for that. Ideally, a solution would: Allow us to manage all help content (text, table of conten...

default page error in HTML help work shop

When I open the help (/chm) application, I could see table of contents. By default, first entry in the file is selected ,however I couldn't see the corresponding page data instead I am able to see "This program cannot display the web page"(default error message that comes in IE7).The page is displayed only when I click on any of the cont...