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From: bdw+@cs.cmu.edu (Blake Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Online-Help Toolkits?
Message-ID: <13474@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 91 22:34:20 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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Can anyone recommend any toolkits (e.g. source or object code libraries) for 
implementing on-line help in an application.  The perfect solution would be 
one that understood Microsoft Word files (or RTF) so that I could use the
actual manual complete with all of its formatting.  I'd at least like 
something with support for a simple table of contents or index and mixing
PICTS with text.  I'm interested in commercial, shareware or public domain
toolkits.

I've heard of two possible solutions, but don't have any details about them.
One is a commercial product called DeskTop Help that is frequently advertised
in the front of MacTutor.  Has anyone used it?  The second was published in
an article in MacTutor sometime in the past year or so.  Does anyone have the
source code from it that they could binhex and email to me?  Any other info
would be appreciated.

	Blake.
	(bdw@cs.cmu.edu)