Help & Manual объединяет в основном окне оглавление (в виде древовидного списка) и текстовый редактор. Это позволяет легко ориентироваться в оглавлении, редактировать или перемещать разделы справки без большой суеты.
WYSIWYG — интерфейс позволяет не задумываться о загадочной сути гиперссылок, макросов и изображений. Вместо нудной возни с идентификаторами (ID) разделов, сносками и непонятными командами, можно полностью сконцентрироваться на такой важной вещи, как проектирование справочного файла.
С помощью Help & Manual легко создаются все стандартные форматы справки Windows (справка HTML Help, классическая справка WinHelp, Microsoft Help 2.0), документы Word и Adobe PDF.
И последнее, но не менее важное: с помощью Help & Manual можно печатать полноценные справочные руководства, включая оглавление и предметный указатель (с настройкой страниц, нумерацией и колонтитулами).
Все типы документов (вместе с данными разделов, оглавлением, предметным указателем и всеми параметрами настройки проекта) создаются и хранятся в единственном файле — проекте Help & Manual.
Intuitive working environment
Help & Manual?s working environment gives you all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor, including dynamic styles and complex tables.
This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects.
Your projects are displayed and edited with the same hierarchical tree structure used by all Windows help formats. The editor and content tree view are combined in a single window. Editing topics and manipulating the structure of your projects is fast and intuitive.
Single source, Multiple output
Single source is much more than just outputting exactly the same information to different formats. Help & Manual supports conditional and customized output features that enable you to include variant content versions for different output formats and purposes – all in the same project, no post-processing is required.
Help & Manual handles all the complexities of help formatting and generation for you, letting you concentrate on the work of writing. But there is also extensive support for power users and experienced help authors. You can get under the hood and insert your own HTML code, change the code the program uses to generate your projects, manipulate topic and project templates and more.
Help & Manual gives you the best of both worlds.
Изменения версии 5.1 :
* A bug in the date calculation routine terminated the calculation of the project statistic when you open a project. This affected certain dates only.
* Print topic: when you print a single topic, protected text is no longer printed with a background. This caused protected text to be almost unreadable on b/w printers.
* Index tool: selected keyword keeps focus when reloading the index manually
* Webhelp: the configuration of the Webhelp publishing format now includes two new options. First, you can export topic pages without the mandatory byte order mark for UTF-8. This solves publishing problems when you run your Webhelp system through a PHP server and have no influence on the PHP options on your server.
Second, the Webhelp output optionally modifies the archive bit of topic files by comparing their content. So instead of looking at the timestamp of the topic, you could use the archive bit to ftp-upload only files that have changed.
* Find & replace: replacing multiple blanks dit not work
* Version control: On the very first export to VCS the Ok button stayed grayed after selecting the VCS provider.
* XML parser: the parsing method for bulleted lists caused certain Wingdings bullets to disappear on non-English Windows systems.
* Small glitch in custom topic status dialog fixed
* Save-as dialog in Impict truncated file names if the filename had it dot in it.
* Drag & drop between projects did not work in some cases
* Compiler report: the command "Open and explore output folder" is now implemented for PDF compiler report as well.
* PDF export: on the printed table-of-contents page in PDF, chapters without text did not have an active link to the beginning of that chapter. This has been added. Furthermore, the underscores of links in justified text were slightly too low, when exported to PDF.
* Online help has been updated
* Additional change in build 750: Navigation script for Webhelp has been updated to fix a small problem with the upcoming MS Internet Explorer 8
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