Dr A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:

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There is a program called hlp2rtf and another one called hlp2doc, which convert help files to rich text format, and Word for Windows format respectively. You probably want the first one.

Well, both seem to be Windoze specific formats, too. On my system I found a SGML to RTF converter, but nothing to convert RTS into something or view RTF. So again, is there something to view or convert DOC or RTF into something standard?

A lot of wordprocessors can read and write to the RTF format. I believe that Wordperfect (from v5.0 onwards) for DOS (and unix?) can read that format - so can Wordstar 2000 for DOS, etc. There must be unix/linux and/or OS/2 programs out there that can read the RTF format - or am I wrong?

I don't know. I don't usually use such things as word processors, so I have none installed. But I'll try to get those programs you mentioned. (Or do they run only on Windoze? In this case, would you please run them and send me the converted files, if their license permits?)

BTW: RTF is basically ascii text with zillions of formatting codes.

OK, then I can probably parse it in my mind if all else fails. Andreas Prucha [helicon] wrote:

Aem, what is standard?

A format that's well-defined and for which implementations are freely available and not restricted to any particular OS or hardware. -- IOW, about anything that't not from M$ & co., usually...

And please don't forget that the document format must be able to handle graphics since all the syntax-diagrams in the helpfile are graphics. Perhaps HTML might do the job?

There are many such standard formats available like HTML with JPEG or some other graphics format, DVI, Postscript, TeX with EPS, or maybe even PDF, all of which should be available on most decent systems. -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@pascal.gnu.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ PGP keys: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=index&search=Frank+Heckenbach