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[Vince M Hudd]

On 23/07/2018 15:04, Martin via Virtualacorn-list wrote:

[Pluto's documentation]

This really belongs on the Pluto list - so I'll post it here and then 
re-post it there. I suggest anyone with any interest in Pluto subscribes 
and continues this discussion there: plutousers at yahoogroups.com (yuck!)

> I know StrongHelp is not everyone's favourite, but it is small, fast,
> and enables one or many pages to be displayed, and instant searches
> to be done. It is the only complete and up-to-date documentation that
> I am aware of, and has a full alphabetic Index and a structured
> Contents. If I had time, I would complete my StrongHelp conversion
> facility: Anyone got any spare?

I'm not entirely familiar with the StrongHelp file format[1], but isn't 
it just a sort of mark up? If so, I wonder if something like WebChange 
can be used to convert individual pages to something like XML?

I suggest XML because there does exist one and a half tools for 
converting from XML to other formats. One is Steve Fryatt's, and (IIRC) 
can convert from XML to various formats - including StrongHelp.

The other is a half (well, tenth) written one of my own (which may or 
may not become part of WebChange, or a separate thing in its own right) 
which I aim to make more customisable, so it can theoretically go from 
XML to anything at all that it's possible to write a config/rules file for.

(I'm holding off writing it fully until the WebChange manual is written 
- which I'm slowly working on in XML. Because of that time stuff you 
mentioned.)

[1] I'm a StrongHelp loather, so I never use it for my own 
documentation[2], and only ever look at SH documentation for other stuff 
as a last resort

[2] Shut up Ron, if you're reading this list. ;)

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Vince M Hudd
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