Description:
RoboHELP 2000 is the standard tool for developing help files for Microsoft Windows applications. RoboHELP 2000 Bible explains how to use RoboHELP's interface to develop electronic documentation in HTML Help, WinHelp, and other popular help-file formats. This book naturally serves to introduce its eponymous software and make its readers competent users of RoboHELP, but it also takes on the larger task of teaching readers something about the art and science of writing documentation. Authors John Hedtke and Elisabeth Knottingham thoroughly explain strategies for chunking information and presenting it effectively, showing how the RoboHELP environment fits with the larger goal of communicating facts. Partially as a result of the authors' holistic approach, and partially because they like to explain concepts in patient detail, this book has more explanatory prose than a lot of others in the Bible series. Although sequences of steps appear when they contribute to the reader's understanding of RoboHELP and the documentation process, thankfully this book does not take an interface-centric approach, in which buttons and other interface elements are documented as they appear on the screen. The emphasis is on how to write good documentation and how RoboHELP's features can help you achieve that goal. The balance between RoboHELP documentation and discussions of larger processes is almost ideal. --David Wall Topics covered: RoboHELP 2000 and the process of developing online documentation (help files) with it. The basics of text, graphics, hyperlinks, tables of contents, indices, context-sensitive help, and all other parts of RoboHELP's feature set are explained in terms of both traditional WinHelp and relatively new HTML Help formats.
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