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Printed Manual

This target produces a Microsoft Word document that includes a table of contents, an index and the individual subdocuments generated from your source documents.

Build Properties

AttributeExpression

Specifies an advanced conditional build expression for a help target.

Concatenate

When True, subdocuments are concatenated into a single master document in printed manual builds.

FixLists

Controls how numbered lists are corrected in the printed manual output when the Concatenate property is set to True.

 

Value

Description

 

Never

Never corrects the numbered lists.

 

Always

Always corrects the numbered lists.

 

Word 2000 Only (Default)

Corrects lists with Word 2000, but not with Word 2002 (XP).

OwnTOC

Determines whether TOC customization performed on the Contents tab applies only to the current help target or to other targets as well.

 

Display Properties

LiveLinks

Determines whether links are live hyperlinks in the manual Word document.

ShowDropdownText

If set to True, drop-down text is shown in the help target, otherwise they are removed.

ShowExpandText

If set to True, drop-down text is shown in the help target, otherwise they are removed.

 

Localization Properties

CodePage

Defines the windows codepage number to be used by the Help file. This property is most commonly used when producing Help files in foreign languages, providing special character sets for translation on the screen or in print.

Locale

This property is used to specify the language in the resulting target files. Each target has its own way of specifying language. For example, HTML Help has a Language option in the [OPTIONS] section of the project file (.hhp).

Miscellaneous Properties

BaseName

Base file name to be used for generating the target file. By default, this name will be the same as the file name for the Help project itself.

CopyFolder

Defines the folder name where ancillary build files will reside.

Folder

Defines the folder name where the Help files will reside.

Name

Returns a string containing the name of a specified Help target (read-only).

StyleSheet

Specifies the name of the cascading style sheet applied to intermediate files during compilation.

Template

The document template to apply to the intermediate files during compilation.

UseTemplateText

Determines whether the text of the template associated with the Manual help target is included in the resulting document.

Strings Properties

StringContents

Allows modification of the contents string value.

StringIndex

Allows modification of the index string value.

 

Title Page Properties

ByLine

Specifies the byline text used on the title page of printed manuals.

SuperTitle

Specifies the text that appears above the title string on the title page of printed manuals.

Title

Represents the title string of an object.