🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi Riley...

So .. are you really looking to build "Eclipse Help" or do you just want a simple frames-based "WebHelp" output? Eclipse Help has a lot of overhead (namely Java) .. which can be useful, but it is a bit of a niche product.

The standard XHTML target will build you a TOC that can be formatted nicely and all you need is a frameset file to wrap it all up. As is standard with the OT, it's pretty boring in appearance, but with some tweaking you can get something decent.

FM can build you a FM book from your DITA files, to which you can add a title page, TOC, and Index .. and it can look identical to a book that you'd craft on your own (pre-DITA). If it's clumsy looking, you need to do a bit more work .. but you can get there. :)

FM can also pass your ditamap off to the OT for processing (which is what the Generate Output command does). It does nothing to the files beyond passing the map filename off to the OT via the ~ant-build.cmd file (found in the FM8/fminit/ditafm folder). You can open this batch file and see the command line that's used. Anything that you can build with the OT, can be spawned from FM .. it just provides easy access to running the OT from FM.

Cheers,

...scott