HelpNDoc’s build system is a robust and versatile component that empowers technical writers to generate documentation projects in a wide array of output formats. With support for formats such as CHM, HTML, Word, PDF, ePub, Kindle, Qt Help, and Markdown, HelpNDoc provides comprehensive options to suit diverse distribution channels and target platforms. Notably, the build system allows users to create multiple builds within each output format, enabling an unlimited number of customized variations.
Some templates include hard-coded English terms (such as "Table of contents", "Index", "Search") which needs to be translated when you generate your documentation in another language. This can easily be done on a build by build basis in HelpNDoc's generate documentation window.
When you're ready to generate documentation, HelpNDoc allows you to define the location of your output files and select the templates that are used to generate your documentation. In addition, you can further customize settings such as color, font size, numbering style, and create conditional tags to tailor your documentation to support specific requirements.
HelpNDoc gives you the flexibility and control to determine which of your builds are published when you generate documentation. When you enable a build, it is generated when you use your build list. You also have the option to temporarily disable a build to prevent it from being generated. This flexibility permits you to maintain builds in your build list without requiring you to publish them each time you generate documentation.
You can define the order of your outputs in your build list. This order determines the order in which your documentation is generated. This order can also dictate which settings are applied when you publish documentation using 'Quick generate.'
You can define the builds that are generated when you publish your documentation. These builds are displayed in your build list and can be enabled or disabled at will. When a build becomes obsolete, it is possible to remove it from your build list.
You can define the outputs that are generated when you publish your documentation. After you've created a publishing output, it is displayed in your build list. When you publish your documentation, it is displayed with its assigned name. To support your specific requirements, you may update this name for any output at any time.
Your HelpNDoc documentation can be published in multiple formats. It can also be published multiple times with different content and settings in each of those formats. Let's see how easily this can be done.
HelpNDoc affords you tremendous flexibility to support dynamic requirements when you publish your documentation. After you've completed your documentation, you can publish it in a variety of formats using a range of options.