[APBeta] Help system

[Jeff Young]

Yeah, I feel your pain.

Even running FrameMaker on Windows is like going back to Pong on your game machine.  Works fine, but boy does it *look* dated.

-- Jeff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On
> Behalf Of Paul Rodman
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:29 PM
> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] Help system
> 
> 
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Richard Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > I think a Help system for AP2 would be a welcome "feature" to add. Neat
> > idea about having the Help system do the actual task with you. Whether
> > implemented in 2 or 3 I think it's a good idea.
> 
> If the truth be told, this is more about incentivising me to work on the "manual" than it is
> about providing you with a spiffy help system :^)
> 
> Since the demise of FrameMaker on the Mac (you hear that Jeff?) I have been forced to use MS
> Word for writing long technical documents. Sadly, MS Word just doesn't do anything for me. In
> fact it crashes every time I quit and loses my preferences changes (a known bug). MS don't seem
> concerned about this at all - esp. as I'm a Mac user. There are other good (and much cheaper)
> products for the Mac (e.g. Mellel), but I just don't feel like climbing the learning curve, so
> HTML it is.
> 
> Paul R.
> 
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