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Quick shout out to the Compiled HTML[0] (.chm) format for similar but unrelated reasons. The Help viewer application was one of the pinnacles of good UX, in my
by jimmygrapes 4y ago
Quick shout out to the Compiled HTML[0] (.chm) format for similar but unrelated reasons. The Help viewer application was one of the pinnacles of good UX, in my opinion.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help
- mappu 4y agoA while back at $DAYJOB I tried to get a CI pipeline to bundle our docs as .chm, but the official tooling (hhc, with-or-without Sphinx as a frontend) is windows-only pre-unicode nonsense; the only Linux native chm compiler i found was Halibut (from the author of PuTTY) which has many of its own idiosyncrasies. Is there any normal-looking way to make a chm from a directory full of html files?
- jimmygrapes 4y agoI haven't made one in ages, but I have heard Calibre might be able to process CHM and possibly even generate it (cannot confirm). The only working bookmark I have now that standalone MSDN is basically defunct (RIP, legend) is: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-1-4-sdk https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/... (might wanna archive before MS redirects it to welcome.microsoft.com or something) Not sure if that helps but it's all I got!