RE: [PHP-DOC] MS Help version of documentation From: Robin Bolton (sillyboy <email protected>)
Date: 11/23/00

I ended up doing things a little backwards, since I don't know how to use
DocBook/DSSSL yet (I've been installing the stuff to learn it onto my
windows box based on an excellent emacs/SGML/TeX/etc tutorial I find
online).

I ended up downloading the daily HTML build of the documentation and using
my text editor inserted a link to a stylesheet that I whipped up. I then did
a universal find/replace for 'target="_top"' and changed it to
'target="_blank"'. That was all that was required for the documentation, the
TOC was a little trickier.

For the TOC I downloaded the one big html version and used about 20-30 find
replaces to strip the document down to nothing but the links and text for
the TOC links. I then did more find/replaces to convert it to the format
required by the HTML Help Workshop program.

I'm pretty sure that the entire process could be automated using emacs
(minus the actual compilation, but that only takes a little over a minute on
my machine).

As far as the compiler (HTML Help Workshop) goes, the configuration files
are all in a pretty simple text format and the TOC file is a
microsoft-centric HTML document, so they could be generated automatically as
well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derick Rethans [mailto:d.rethans <email protected>]
Sent: November 23, 2000 5:38 PM
To: Jouni Ahto
Cc: Derick Rethans; Robin Bolton; Hartmut Holzgraefe; PHP Documentation
List
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] MS Help version of documentation

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Jouni Ahto wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Derick Rethans wrote:
>
> >
> > DSSSL is kinda hard for me :)
>
> Not easy for anyone. But then, MS Help format... did they actually
> document something?

Not that I know off... So I don't think it's possible to use the DSSSL
sheets for this, the CHM files are also compressed and so.

>
> -- Jouni
>

derick