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@@ -12,22 +12,19 @@ This will generate a large set of \i{output files}:
\b \i\c{output.txt} will be a \i{plain text} version of the input
document.
+\b \i\c{output.chm} will be a Windows \i{HTML Help} version of the
+same thing. (Note that to do this Halibut does not require any
+external software such as a \i{Help compiler}. It \e{directly}
+generates Windows HTML Help files, and therefore it doesn't need to be
+run on Windows to do so: it can generate them even when run from an
+automated script on a Unix machine.)
+
\b \i\c{output.hlp} and \i\c{output.cnt} will be an old-style
\i{Windows Help} version of the same thing. (Most of the text is in
\c{output.hlp}; \c{output.cnt} contains additional contents data
used by the Windows help topic selector. If you lose the latter, the
former should still be usable, but it will look less modern.)
-\lcont{
-
-Note that to do this Halibut does not require any external software
-such as a \i{Help compiler}. It \e{directly} generates old-style
-Windows Help files, and therefore it doesn't need to be run on
-Windows to do so: it can generate them even when run from an
-automated script on a Unix machine.
-
-}
-
\b \c{output.1} will be a Unix \i{\cw{man} page}.
\b The set of files \c{*.html} will contain an \i{HTML} version of
@@ -79,6 +76,13 @@ line, using the \c{-C} option).
\dd Synonym for \c{--html}.
+\dt \i\cw{--chm}[\cw{=}\e{filename}]
+
+\dd Specifies that you want to generate Windows HTML Help
+output. You can optionally specify a file name (e.g.
+\c{\-\-chm=myfile.chm}), in which case Halibut will change the
+name of the output file as well.
+
\dt \i\cw{--winhelp}[\cw{=}\e{filename}]
\dd Specifies that you want to generate old-style Windows Help