Apple Help

Apple Help uses specially formatted HTML-based documents called help books to provide comprehensive help for an application. In its simplest form, a help book is a self-contained folder with HTML files and graphics. In more complex cases, some or all the help content is actually stored on an Internet server and retrieved on demand by the Help Viewer application. Figure 20.1 shows Help Viewer displaying the help book for the RoX application.

Figure 20.1. Apple’s Help Viewer application displays comprehensive help.

The HTML documents used by Help Viewer contain standard HTML 3.2 tags, but because of limitations in the Help Viewer application, ...

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