[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Sampsa Laine]

Yeah, that should be doable.

Doesn't even need to be a database, just an agreed markup structure and files..

Then just convert them to whatever format you want.

Sampsa


On 8 Sep 2015, at 00:06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On 09/07/2015 05:50 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
>> This probably sounds ludicrous and over-ambitious but would it make
>> sense to compile the information into a database then run various
>> scripts to compile files of various formats from it?
>> 
>> Just the way my mind works :)
> 
>  Are you kidding??  This is a phenomenally great idea!
> 
>  About 12-13 years ago I worked on a project building a commercial
> product.  I was doing the hardware and firmware, but I was able to steer
> the documentation team a bit.  We ended up writing all of the
> documentation source material in XML, and we had some XSLT scripts to
> generate printed manuals, the help files for the application, and the
> online documentation on the website.  It was all driven from the XML
> source documents, so it never got out of sync.  It was great.
> 
>  Sure, I really dislike XML, it's way too friggin' verbose and
> overcomplicated for what it is, but it has some pretty significant
> advantages: It's well understood, it's standardized, it's documented,
> and there are scads of tools out there to manipulate it.
> 
>                -Dave
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA

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