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Interesting documentation tool
October 3rd, 2008 by Ken Hagler

Helpify, the Omni Help Emitter. Hello, friends. One of my jobs here at Omni is creating our documentation, including onscreen help in the Apple Help Book format. Over the years I have been building a Python tool that turns specially-formatted OmniOutliner 3 files into proper help books, which can then be dropped into an app. This is pretty useful for “single-sourcing” our help and manuals. If you, too, would like to author your help in OmniOutliner, with automatic formatting, indexing, and navigation, you may want to try it out. [The Omni Mouth]

This sounds like a good idea. I don’t produce any help books myself, but I do have to write various documentation and notes, and I find it’s generally easier to do that writing in an outliner.


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