HelpNDoc 4 6 0 558 update#

HelpNDoc is a fantastic documentation editing and generation software.

Better documentation generation and various bug fixes To run HelpNDoc in Spanish, simply choose that language when installing it, or select the Spanish language in the options dialog.

HelpNDoc 4 6 0 558 update#

This new major update of HelpNDoc introduces localization for the Spanish language: the user interface, this web-site as well as the tutorial project have been translated. HelpNDoc and its web-site are now available in English, French, German and Spanish. The topic editor has speed improvements and works better with screen readers, while various dialogs now have better per monitor DPI awareness. This update also includes a redesigned insert symbol dialog which supports all Unicode characters, character groups and categories, hexadecimal characters, selection of font with same character…

“Hyperlinks”, “Library items”, “Keywords” and “Spelling” grids in the project analyser.

The insert / edit hyperlink dialog (it has been a much requested feature).

The table of contents, library and keywords editors.

This panel has been added to most lists including: Most lists, trees and grids within HelpNDoc now include an optional find panel: hit the CTRL-F keyboard shortcut while the list is focused, start typing the content of an item, and HelpNDoc will automatically filter the list to show only the relevant ones. Technical authors spend a lot of time working on documentations, so it makes sense that each update of HelpNDoc includes features which can speed up and simplify their work. User interface and productivity enhancements The find and replace algorithm has also been improved as it can now locate content across multiple styles, while lengthy search operations can now be aborted. It makes it possible to replace a library item by a textual content or another library item either within the current document or the whole documentation project.

Looking for library items is another great addition of HelpNDoc’s enhanced find and replace dialog. As an example, you can use the regular expression to find any Twitter handle or tag within your content. Using the powerful Perl Compatible Regular Expressions syntax, technical writers can easily write advanced patterns to locate and replace content within the whole documentation project. Regular expressions use a search pattern to find one or more characters within the content of the current topic, or the entire project. Locating or replacing content within a documentation project is now easier than ever as HelpNDoc’s find and replace dialog has been enhanced to be able to locate content using regular expressions or library items. It is for example possible to add a custom property to link topics together, display specific messages, or instruct the template to perform a specific task for this topic… the possibilities are endless. Topics now include an optional description which is useful for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes for the generated HTML documentation as each HTML topic file can now contain a specific description.īut that’s not the only new field that you can attach to a topic, as each topic can now have an unlimited number of custom properties which are key / value pairs and can be used by scripts or templates for various tasks. We have obviously enhanced HelpNDoc’s already excellent conditional topic and content generation to allow for selective generation of topics based on their status: it is now possible, for example, to generate a documentation without any “Out of Date”, “In Progress” or “For Review” topics, thus allowing the documentation team to continue to work on the content while providing an optimal material to the end reader.

HelpNDoc’s table of contents clearly indicates the status of each topic to help rapidly spot where the technical writer’s attention is needed. This allows topics to be tagged as being “Out of Date”, “In Progress”, “For Review”, “Complete” or any custom status you might define. It is now possible to specify a “status” for each topic.