Re: Lua manual 5.0 in DevHelp

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Maxime Petazzoni wrote:
> I recently discovered a little program called DevHelp[1]. It is a 
> documentation browser, initially for Gnome developpers. But it's 
> simplicity and flexibility made it become a general documentation browser.
>
> Several books are available[2] for DevHelp, such as MySQL, Gtk+, SDL, 
> Emacs, Atk, Pango etc.
>
> I was wondering if someone was planning to convert the Lua manual into 
> the Devhelp format. If not, I'll be pleased to do so !
>
> Tell me if you're interested :)
> - Sam
>
> [1] http://www.imendio.com/projects/devhelp/
> [2] http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/books/devhelp.php

I didn't knew that program. It strongly looks like Microsoft's HTMLHelp (CHM files), 
with the advantage of being human readable/editable, and the inconvenient to be 
uncompressed, needing subdirectories to manage, taking quite some room and being 
harder to move around.

Beside that, it seems like a good idea. I wonder if there is a Windows version, or if 
DevHelp files can be easily converted to CHM format...

While trying to answer myself this question, I found an interesting message:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devtools/2004-January/msg00056.html

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