HelpSetMaker
HelpSetMaker allows creation and maintenance of help documents. It is especially tailored to the needs of the JavaHelp online help system for Java programs. Help texts are written in a very simple descriptive language, and the resulting documents are immediately shown on the screen. Links, images, and style sheets can be included and managed. It can also produce HTML and LaTeX source output.
| Tags | Text Editors Documentation Software Development |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Java |
| Translations | German English |
Recent releases
- 11 Dec 2006 08:46
Changes: Line indentation (e.g. for source code output) can be archieved by putting "_" at line beginnings. Index creation works again as spurious XML statements are removed from HelpSet HTML. Macro definitions are always read with the correct character encoding. Projects are automatically saved before output creation. The "titletag" attribute can be added to HelpSet output now. HelpSets show a start page instead of an empty frame by default now.
- 27 Nov 2006 10:08
Changes: Macros allow the definition of reusable text parts, inline or on a separate paragraph, with parameters and markup. New projects are set up much friendlier so that you can immediately start typing. Encoding for new projects has been changed to UTF-8; old projects retain their encoding for the moment. A bug in the scanner has been fixed regarding the handling of \escaped characters. Arrows in all four directions can be circumscribed in the STML input file.
- 17 Oct 2006 13:20
Changes: The image handling is vastly improved: images in the editor preview windows and in all output modes can be scaled now. Additionally, thumbnails are managed much more efficiently. Changing thumbnail sizes is not time consuming anymore once the thumbnails are created.
- 10 Sep 2006 10:54
Changes: Multiple character encoding and I18N issues have been fixed. LaTeX output is more flexible with support for arbitrary LaTeX code for header, document opening, and STML-div-parts. The program interface is translated into French.
- 21 Aug 2006 10:19
Changes: The image library shows images with a directory tree now. LaTeX processing can be done from within HelpSetMaker. The output of HelpSet, HTML, and LaTeX has been syntactically cleaned up. HTML export can use the label definition as a filename. German LaTeX output allows hyphenation of words with dashes.
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Recent commentsExcellent program!
I've been using HelpSet Maker to generate the help documentation for my Java program TextCite, and it's been a marvelous tool. I especially like the fact that it generates multiple document types, in addition to a JavaHelp file. The GUI isn't the most beautiful in the world, but it's extremely functional and full of helpful features. Two thumbs up!