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For an immediate start, click on Projects → Create project, create and select an empty directory and start typing your text.
HelpSetMaker is a program designed for creating help information. It is designed upon the philosophy that structured help texts should be createable in an intuitive way and with the least possible overhead. The easier it is for the author to produce the text, the better the results are.
Special care has been taken for the integration with the JavaHelp system, even though the program can be used beyond that system.
HelpSetMaker features in particular
Creation of help information using a very simple command language
Direct control of the produced output as a HTML view
Management of a tree of information pages with direct access to each page
Creation, control, and immediate check of links between the information pages
Handling of link targets on top or somewhere in the middle of a page
Stand-alone images or images/icons in the text
Management of image libraries containing all the needed images
Export of fully self-contained file bundles containing all the needed parts for the complete set of information files.
Integrated management of CSS and LaTeX environment definitions and availablity of source macros.
HelpSetMaker knows of exporting the following file formats:
JavaHelp 2 HelpSets, either as a file tree or as a readly packaged JAR file.
HTML4 file tree for rendering in a frame-capable browser.
Single HTML4 file containing all information at once
LaTeX source to be passed through the TeX/LaTeX typesetting system.
HelpSetMaker is distributed under the terms of the General Public License.
As you might already have asked yourself: Yes, this complete help information is done itself with the HelpSetMaker. You can see it not only as a documentation of the system, but also as an example of what is possible.
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