Reference > Help Windows

"Help windows" are often a source of confusion for people first learning to produce help and documentation. This applies in particular when you are using a tool like Help & Manual that also uses several different types of templates to define the appearance and behavior of topics and pages. The confusion is made even worse by the fact that all the output formats that support help windows handle them in different ways.

If you study this chapter you will have a better understanding of help windows in particular and help formats in general. The Questions and answers topic provides a general introduction to help windows and what they are for. The other topics in the chapter explain how help windows work in the output formats generated by Help & Manual.