Converting Word files to Windows help files

[hgm]

Does anyone know and / or have the tools for converting a Word file (RTF) to a Windows help file?

I have updated the user manual of WinBoard, which I found as a Word file in the WinBoard 4.2.7 distribution, to include all the new features (menus as well as command-line options, and bug fixes / other improvements) of WinBoard_x and WinBoard 4.3.14. The READ_ME file in that same distribution states that this Word file is the basis for the help that you access if you click the WinBoard help menu.

So it would be really nice if someone would know how to convert this stuff: it would mean that WinBoard finally has a fully up-to-date help again. Now you can only look at the help by starting up Word.

[Eizenhammer]

Does anyone know and / or have the tools for converting a Word file (RTF) to a Windows help file?

I have updated the user manual of WinBoard, which I found as a Word file in the WinBoard 4.2.7 distribution, to include all the new features (menus as well as command-line options, and bug fixes / other improvements) of WinBoard_x and WinBoard 4.3.14. The READ_ME file in that same distribution states that this Word file is the basis for the help that you access if you click the WinBoard help menu.

So it would be really nice if someone would know how to convert this stuff: it would mean that WinBoard finally has a fully up-to-date help again. Now you can only look at the help by starting up Word.

Hello,

there are many tools for creating winhelp files, for example here:
http://www.helpmaster.info/hlp-musthave.htm

Unfortunately I have experience with chm only, which is html based, but i remember to have seen many instructions how to work with winhelp, too, not sure now about things like shortcuts or similar, but maybe you dont need any of these special functionality.

regards
Peter

[hgm]

OK, thanks! This help compiler really works, and I was even able to fix the RTF source such that I only get 3 warnings. (They are all about too-long font names, which I did not specify at all, so I suppose that this is not my fault.)

Next WinBoard release will be with a complete up-to-date help!