RTF editor

Wordpad, maybe?
Or make it yourself, using the RichEdit control. In most RAD environments, like Delphi, BCB, VB or C#, this should be about 5 minutes of work.

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"I would defend the liberty of concenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent."
Arthur C Clarke

Well, yeah - what I had in mind was a ''visual'' RTF editor where you don''t have to write the tags yourself. That''s what I find to be a bit of a bore, especially as I''d have to spend some time to become comfortable with it. Besides, I''ve read someplace that ''you shouldn''t ever try to write your RTF file directly''. In this case I''m looking for a simple, straightforward solution.

PS - Wordpad acts weird when you start positioning stuff in it - it messes up colors and alignment and basically does not work.

Thanks anyway,
Crispy

you can try openoffice.org.

Thanks a bunch, niyaw! The format it saves into is accepted by MS Help Workstation, although I still have to create the footnotes and page breaks in MS Word - oh well... That''s what you get when you start writing too much stuff that you''re constantly using, but find annoying to refer to in a source file because of the syntax - you start thinking of writing your own hlp reference file

Thanks again,
Crispy

you know, html help is much better than hlp files...

and didn''t you mean ms help workshop?

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Original post by niyaw
and didn''t you mean ms help workshop ?

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Jeez!

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Original post by niyaw
you know, html help is much better than hlp files...

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Not if you''re hooked on context-sensitive help as am I. I just love the F1 feature even though I haven''t got the IDE to recognize my help file yet - bah! The only thing I miss in a hlp file is the Ctrl+F functionality in the open topic... I guess it all boils down to a matter of taste, though.

Crispy

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Original post by Crispy
Not if you''re hooked on context-sensitive help as am I. I just love the F1 feature even though I haven''t got the IDE to recognize my help file yet - bah! The only thing I miss in a hlp file is the Ctrl+F functionality in the open topic... I guess it all boils down to a matter of taste, though.

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msvc provides context help by f1 with html help, why can''t you do that too?

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Original post by niyaw
msvc provides context help by f1 with html help, why can''t you do that too?

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I''m using BC...

Uhmm... neither of those two scenarios I gave you implied that you should write RTF tags manually. Wordpad has RTF as one of its export formats, and the richedit control also lets you manipulate the contents through code and then save as .rtf.

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Original post by Arild Fines
Uhmm... neither of those two scenarios I gave you implied that you should write RTF tags manually. Wordpad has RTF as one of its export formats, and the richedit control also lets you manipulate the contents through code and then save as .rtf.

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Mkay - I wasn''t probably fully concentrated when I read your post because I''ve tried using Wordpad, and to no avail. Furthermore, Wordpad doesn''t support footnotes which are a vital link in creating hlp files. Anyways, sorry, my bad.

Crispy