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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: Bitmaps by reference in help files
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Date: 27 Nov 90 07:44:50 GMT
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In article <9817@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jseidman@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (James Seidman) writes:
>
>Gee, I wish HELPEX had an example of this.  I'm trying to include a few
>simple, small, monochrome bitmaps in a .HLP file.  The manual makes it sound
>so easy... just put {bmc filename.bmp} in the file, and add the filename to
>the [BITMAPS] section of the .HPJ file, and it just works.
>
>Well, not for me.  What I get is the text "{bmc filename.bmp}" in my help
>file.  I've tried a bunch of different formatting combinations (in the
>manual, "bmc" is bold, and "filename" italic, but they never give any
>indication if that's important or not).

don't use the characters '{' and '}'; use the Word for Windows field
characters (which appear on the screen as { and }) which you get by
hitting Ctrl-F9.

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu
anybody wanna hire a used Windows programmer?