Kbase 16070: Developing Help for TTY UNIX ( Using Windows .rtf files )
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/10/1998 |
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Developing Help for TTY UNIX ( Using Windows .rtf files )
The UNIX help compiler was designed to use the same format as
the Microsoft Window help compiler. It was developed by an
outside source when the Microsoft Word 2.0 set the .rtf
standard. It uses the same .rtf files and the same help
project file as the Windows compiler.
You can develop one set of .rtf files for an application you
are going to deploy on UNIX and on Windows. When developing
the .rtf files, you must keep in mind the limitations imposed
by the UNIX TTY interface. You cannot use bitmaps, tables,
or anything graphical in nature. Since these features are
important, you may want to keep two sets of .rtf files (one
with the graphical elements and one without). Bitmaps can be
left in the .rtf files (they will be ignored by the help
displayer in TTY). You can use features such as hypertext
links and popups.
Since Word 2.0 was the standard when the help compiler was
developed (Word went from 2 to 6), you must save your .rtf
files from within Word 2.0. If you create your help files
with a newer version of Word, you must save the files as a
Word 2.0 doc file, open it in Word 2.0, then save using the
rtf format. There are also new features on Word 6 that must
be turned off before developing. Go into Tools->Options and
select the Auto-Format Tab folder. There are check boxes
that enable replacing quotes with smart quotes, symbol chars
with symbols, and Bullet chars with bullets. You do not want
these to be checked (They are checked by default).
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 16070