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- From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:03:59 GMT
- Subject: Re: i'm stupid and can't create an RTF file!
- Message-ID: <56380005@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpfcso!hpgrla!galenr
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- References: <1992Dec19.205009.850@emr1.emr.ca>
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- In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc, jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:
-
- >I'm trying to understand how to create help files for my application
- >and I am getting overwhelmed by the complexity. As far as I am
- >concerned, the use of RTF files is the most awkward format to
- >read/write/maintain that they could have possibly used.
-
- >I have looked at WFWHLP, XANTIPPE and various other things including
- >suggestions to use Perl, awk, etc etc etc. Someone sent me a sample
- {... stuff deleted ...}
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- >--
- >John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
- >Airborne Geophysics
- >Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
-
- Yup, RTF files are quite awkward... You mentioned you had xantippe. Why
- not create a "simple" 1 page form similar to what you want and see how
- xantippe formats the RTF file? White-space is possible, though you are
- trying to defeat one of the "features" of Windows help (which tries to
- adjust the width of the displayed text to whatever the current width of
- the Help window is). Occassionally though, one still needs white-space.
- With xantippe all you need to do to create white space is to CR/LF a
- couple times...
-
- If someone would create a truly SIMPLE help file editor&compiler for us
- mere mortals I think the person would have an income rivalling that of
- of Bill Gates (well, almost) :-) At the very least hell might freeze
- over :-) I guess the fact that one still doesn't exist is testimony to
- how difficult RTF is...
- - Galen -
-