Announcing: EditHelp a new version

A new Version of EditHelp, ver 1.43, is available which has many new 
features, including:

  - links to half way through a topic

  - {include} files and call DLLs to insert text during compilation

  - conditional compilation

  - insert raw html.

  - the Status dialog now allows you to copy the topic list to clipboard and
    paste it into your program

  - saves EBK file as a backup of the EDH

  - allows a CITATION up to 255 chars

  - Writes Win95 CNT file

  - HTML now uses heading 3 not heading 2 for sub-headings

  - "Spoof" WinHelp.exe (Windows 3.1 only) will display all calls that any 
    application makes to WinHelp. EditHelp will create or display the 
    corresonding topic.

EditHelp creates Help Files for use with the Windows help system. It is
a stand-alone program which does not require Microsoft Word. It contains
a fast internal compiler or you can use a Microsoft compiler such as HC31.

EditHelp can produce HTML files from the same source.

Since Version 1.40, EditHelp can automatically read the PAS file of 
a Borland Delphi Component and create a skeleton help file. The file 
will contain the B-Keywords required by the Delphi Help Search
Engine. EditHelp also writes Delphi KWF files. There will be topics for
all the public and published components, properties, events and methods.

EditHelp can also create a skeleton help file by reading the resources
of an EXE file. (But unfortunately, Delphi doesn't use resources for
its dialogs and menus.) 

EditHelp can read existing (uncompressed) Help files.

EditHelp is shareware. The unregistered version will do everything you need
to create HLP files with links, bitmaps and simple layout. The registered 
version has extra features, including:

  bitmap links
  links can execute DLLs and EXEs
  layout commands:
    indented lists
    lines
    boxed text
    centred text
  text commands:
    different fonts
    different character sizes
    coloured text
    bold and italic text
  browse lists

You can still obtain these features in the unregistered version via
the {literal} command - but it's far less convenient.

Peter Balch


