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New WYSIWYG Editor
Now, I've certainly not gone through all of the functionality yet, but everything I've seen so far screams that Help and Manual 4 is better than ever. I just can't say enough about what a great product EC-Software has in Help and Manual.
Leah Eaton, Caduceus Systems
Help & Manual 4 introduces a completely new editor engine that radically enhances the capabilities of the entire program. The new editor eliminates all the editing restrictions of the earlier versions of Help & Manual, not only those of the table editor or other limitations of the old Rich Text format. It natively supports tables with all the functionality you can wish for. The new editor is lightning fast, even more stable and has all the features you are looking for – and many more that you didn't even imagine were possible.
It is "almost WYSIWYG" (full WYSIWYG is not possible for the wealth of output formats we support) and makes it possible to use justified text, very many more paragraph and formatting options and a wealth of other major and minor improvements. For example, it features fully-dynamic styles and stylesheets, can handle Unicode and supports complex formatted tables and nested tables.
Dynamic Styles
The other feature requested most frequently by Help & Manual 3 users is dynamic styles, and this is yet another area where Help & Manual 4 delivers. The new version features a complete implementation of dynamic styles with dynamic linking and inheritance and different settings for design, print and electronic help output.
Miscellaneous new features
- Graphics and hotspots: the new integrated hotspot editor lets you use image hotspots with any image format.
- Two-way keyword index: a radically-improved keyword index editor that is updated in real time while you are editing and entering keywords. You can see the finished index while you are working, which makes it much easier to produce a high-quality index quickly and efficiently.
- Hyperlink handling: Inserting and editing hyperlinks has been significantly improved and a new hyperlink type, file links, has been added.
- Topic anchors can have keywords
- Design time bookmarks and topic comments have been improved and combined and they now integrate deeply in the help design process.