Re: Does anyone use a help system besides JavaHelp for on-line help?

Doogle T escribió:
> I've read a lot of posts, documents, and have tested JavaHelp for RCP
> (and non-RCP) applications. I have learned the advantages of JavaHelp,
> and come across a few disadvantages. I also searched for a GUI that will
> automatically modify the map, toc, index, etc. meta (xml) files
> pertaining to the structure of a particular help set. If one exists, I
> would be interested in learning about it.
>

You can use DocBook to generate JavaHelp (and PDF/XHTML/etc). In my
latest projects I've used plain HTML (with some hacking from TexInfo
output) and links to online blogs/resources.

DocBook is widely used out there for Gnome/Gtk (KDE?) documentation. The
latest book about NetBeans Platform has been written in DocBook, as far
as I know. Gnome has quite advanced DocBook templates that produce quite
nice HTML output. I know there's a DocBook plugin for NetBeans, but I
haven't used it. Maybe there's an open-source visual editor out there.

I think there was a bug report asking for building docs in something
else but JavaHelp. I can't tell what happend to that bug report, though.

I prefer JavaHelp to online documentation because I can then go browse
for help while being offline. This is very handy (and one of the main
requirements for a Help system as well).

Cheers,
Antonio