saving marker and topic title during Mif2GO processing

Jim Owens jowens at magma.ca
Tue Jun 17 09:29:55 PDT 2008


As part of our Help production, we need a list of context-sensitive 
markers and topic titles, like this:

IDH_NewWidget "Adding widgets"
IDH_EditWidget "Editing widgets"

(The exact formatting doesn't matter; I'll be processing it anyway.) We 
use this information to update our help testing tool, so that the tester 
knows what topic title is associated with a given hook.

We're using Mif2GO to generate HTML Help. I'd like to use Mif2GO to 
create this list at the same time. (I'm also interested in reasonable 
alternatives.)

 From early research, I think I can:

- save the marker values as macro variables
- save the topic titles as macro variables
- use a FileEndCommand to pass these macro variables to a custom EXE 
that can add them to a file.

Is this possible?  Is there a better way?

Some alternatives I've already considered:

- Using FM to generate a List of Markers. But then I have to manage the 
List of Markers file, which I don't want in the book.

- Using the .hha file from Mif2Go. But then I'd have to use the exact 
topic titles as the filenames, punctuation and all, and I'm worried that 
this could cause other problems.

- Crunching the MIF files to pull out the markers and titles, using a 
custom EXE invoked from BookEndCommand.  But this requires a lot of 
processing.













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