Gave Help & Doc a test-run and I must say I'm impressed.

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Gave Help & Doc a test-run and I must say I'm impressed.
Easy to use, to the point and very efficient - loved it!
https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/helpdoc-documentation-made-easy/

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  1. Richard BaroniunasSeptember 13, 2018 at 10:13 AM

    One of the best Help generator packages available. Went with the Professional package and have used it for years.

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  2. Sergey KasandrovSeptember 13, 2018 at 11:04 AM

    What is Help&Doc source documentation format?

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  3. Sergey KasandrovSeptember 13, 2018 at 8:31 PM

    No answer is the answer. Help&Doc is great software, but not for writing programming documentation. It is designed for writing books, or making notes, or else.

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  4. Joseph MitzenSeptember 13, 2018 at 10:20 PM

    Sergey Kasandrov Why do you say it's not for writing programming documentation?

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  5. Joseph MitzenSeptember 13, 2018 at 10:27 PM

    Definitely one of the nicest documentation tools out there. My one problem with it is that it has that '90s Windows/Delphi mentality... make everything a GUI and integrate it all together. I personally prefer a documentation tool that works with a markup format (ReSTructured Text, Markdown, etc.) and lets you use your own text editor instead.

    Help And Doc is to be commended for having a selection of modern output formats. Certain competitors cost more and can't even produce a PDF file!

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  6. Sergey KasandrovSeptember 13, 2018 at 10:48 PM

    Joseph Mitzen You answered it. Writing programming documentation is writing content; you don't care how it fits on A4 page or else. Markdown format is most popular today, and that is why my choice is MkDocs (I don't post the link because G+ now marks posts with links as spam). The older alternative is Sphinx (uses RST format), more advanced (PDF export, etc). But MkDocs is rapidly developing, so I expect more features soon.

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  7. Joseph MitzenSeptember 13, 2018 at 11:22 PM

    Lennart Aasenden, why are you still using Open Office? LibreOffice forked from Open Office several years ago once Oracle bought Sun. Almost all of the developers left for LibreOffice and then Oracle donated Open Office to Apache. Eventually even IBM stopped contributing to Open Office, and now it's practically dead.

    pcworld.com - Can Apache OpenOffice Still Compete with LibreOffice?

    From Wikipedia:

    "Between October 2014 and July 2015 the project had no release manager. During this period, in April 2015, a known remote code execution security vulnerability in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 was announced... but the project did not have the developers available to release the software fix. Instead, the Apache project published a workaround for users, leaving the vulnerability in the download. Former PMC chair Andrea Pescetti volunteered as release manager in July 2015] and version 4.1.2 was released in October 2015.

    It was revealed in October 2016 that 4.1.2 had been distributed with a known security hole ... for nearly a year as the project had not had the development resources to fix it."

    For an improved, less buggy and more secure experience, switch to LibreOffice!

    https://www.libreoffice.org/

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  8. Juan C. CillerueloSeptember 14, 2018 at 1:19 AM

    Sergey Kasandrov

    Obviously. HelpNDoc is for write user guides and reference guides for FINAL USERS, not to document your software.

    His main feature, apart from the output formats, is the power capabilities of indexing the topics in your text with your program sections.

    You create easily the FINAL USER CONTEXT HELP, based on CHM (Microsoft Format), or HTML, pointing to a web or a local folder.

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