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I've been searching lately for different way to present a user manual that is easy to use and understand.
At first, I tought that the Microsoft Help files would be great, since I knew my way around basic HTML. Little did I knew that Microsoft Help Workshop was a bit more complicated than simply taking HTML and processing it. I had multiple problem while trying to ajust the different styles and classes applied to my HTML.
What would be the best tool to use to convert an existing HTML project (HTML, CSS and basic Javascript) to a compiled .CHM file?
If it is not possible, what option would be worth exploring when making maintainable user manuals?
Thanks.
I would explore using pandoc to convert your html or markdown to docbook or pdf, or any of 100s of other formats.
There are various tools available to do that. Few noteworthy are: nDoc or DocBook or FAR HTML or doxygen or Microsoft's SandCastle
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I am looking to render SQL code on my webpage. I am making tutorials and i would like to display SQL snippets to my visitors. Are there some librairies out there or best practices to do that?
Since this is StackOverflow I will recommend the one that StackExchange is using - Google's Code Prettify library, which supports SQL.
You would have to include the library to your site:
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/code-prettify/master/loader/run_prettify.js"></script>
And then write your example
<pre class="prettyprint">
SELECT name FROM users;
</pre>
Usually when you want to neatly display code on a webpage, CSS isn't enough. If you want more sophisticated code coloring and formatting, you'll most likely need to write javascript in order to detect keywords, values strings etc. Luckily with the dev community being what it is, there are already options to do this for many different languages. I'd recommend SyntaxHighlighter as it offers support for many languages, it's easy to use and customize.
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I'm reading some articles about website optimizisation and different ways to proceed. I've found lots of information about caching, minifying the css, regrouping css files...
Here is an exemple:
I'm building my website using Bootstrap but I'm not using all the css properties defined in the bootstrap files. It would probably be more efficient to remove those unused properties to have a more lightweight css file.
So, here's my question, Is there a software which can do that and the minifying and other "code side" optimization ?
If not why is it not possible ?
Thank you !
Yes and no.
No, there isn't a tool that does it all in a simple step.
Yes you can configure some tools to do it. :)
You need a build process of some kind ( grunt, gulp, webpack for example )
Depends on which you choose there are tools or modules that can be configured.
You need to understand that there are a million possible optimization: for example if you compile bootstrap from less or sass you can simply not include the sub-modules you don't use, or you can minify and compress the final css / js. Or you can use something like Critical Path CSS
Customize your Bootstrap
http://getbootstrap.com/customize/
Than read grunt
and search how to css,js concat and minimize
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I have many html files generated by some coworkers through Dreamweaver CS5.5 and (worse!) Frontpage 2003. The source for these files looks horrendous and I am tasked with updating them to HTML5 format. I found tools online for stripping out inline css and adding the code to external sheets as well as combining and merging multiple css files into a single file.
What I want to find is some system of taking the outdated html attributes such as align, valign, bgcolor, width, height, etc. and replacing them with css code. It's way too much to do manually so I thought I could get some ideas on software to help me do this. Thanks.
Edit: Henry wants to know the tools I found. Here they are:
http://inlinecssextractor.com/home.html (Inline CSS Extractor)
http://www.minifycss.com/css-compressor/ (CSS Compressor)
For the CSS part, fantasai will help you styling in modern CSS each deprecated attribute you removed (or replaced by a class having the same styling)
Good luck with the <ms:o part. And <font> :/
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we are planning to write our software documentation in Markdown, but to provide a clickable webview we need to convert the Markdown documents to a nice looking set of HTML pages.
In our workflow we tend to write the documentation and deliver the documenation together with the sourcecode and binaries to our clients. I found a lot off 1-page convert to html programs, but i am wondering if there is a good converter that takes markdown pages and styling elements and is able to convert that to a workable site, including navigation elements such as sub-pages etc?
Is this an end-user documentation or an API-documentation for developers?
For first case I'd suggest looking at Wiki software with Markdown support.
For second case, you should really mention which programming language.
You should check out Gollum. It's the software that powers Github's wikis. It converts a git repository of text files into a wiki.
Here is a blog that introduces several tools that maintain documentation with Markdown. ScreenSteps seems to fit you the best.
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I've found wkhtmltopdf, which looks good on the surface and works fine in very small cases, but it doesn't provide any real css control over the rendering.
By that I mean it doesn't use the print media type and page breaks are not respected, as well, on windows you can't control the names of some header/footer variables, or generate a TOC off of teh h1 tags.
Are there any real open source alternatives, I've tried xhtml2pdf which is a python library actually called pisa, but it requires reportlab which doesn't play nice windows.
I'm actually programming in .net but if its good and open source, the language isn't a huge issue.
This is an old stackoverflow question, but because google took me here, it could be helpful for somebody else.
Weasyprint should support what the author was looking for.
It supports print css features like page break.
Try weasyprint
It turns out there was no open source alternative that was simpler, but on windows wkhtmltopdf is just not the best thing, so we paid for a better solution.
Winnovative's PDF library is what we used
While it is not open-source, I use ABCPDF. I have a template page in .NET that I use for a wrapper to set up a custom stylesheet for generating PDFs only.