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474 The Fundamentals of Visual FoxPro 6.0<br />
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HTML Help Builder<br />
West Wind HTML Help Builder offers a new way to build developer help files. Most help file–<br />
generation software focuses heavily on the visual aspects of help generation, so you end up<br />
using a word processor like Word with macros to generate your content. That works well for<br />
end-user documentation—but what about developer documentation? Developer documentation<br />
tends to be much more structured and uses repetitive data entry that’s often easier to<br />
accomplish via structured data input. With this structured approach it’s easy to integrate the<br />
help file creation into the development process, both for creating end-user developer<br />
documentation as well as building internal documentation and references. See Figure <strong>16</strong>.18.<br />
Help Builder also focuses on laying out the structure of the help file. All while you’re<br />
working with Help Builder you’re creating a layout that matches the layout of the HTML Help<br />
file and you can see the project take shape as you work. All views are live so you can see any<br />
text you create immediately as HTML, and the project structure is at any point visible in real<br />
time. All topics inside the viewer are also live, so you can click and move around the help file<br />
just like you can in the compiled HTML Help file. Finally, when you’re ready to build your
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