Information Presentation Facility

IPF is the abbreviation for Information Presentation Facility from IBM. It is an SGML markup to create online Help files for the operating system OS / 2 From the corresponding source files are generated by a compiler ( IPFC ) binary help files ( HLP) or online books (INF).

History

IPF and INF were first used in 1989 for the online help of the operating system OS / 2 1.2. The IBM PC-DOS recent issues also use the INF format for help.

Example

A small example from the manual:

. *     : userdoc.     : title.Beispieldatei     : h1 res = 001.Eine heading     . *     : p.Dies is some text.     : artwork name = ' ein_bild.bmp '.     : i1. An index entry     . *     : euserdoc. Development Tools

The compiler ( IPFC ) is delivered with the development environment ( Developer's Toolkit ) to OS / 2. In addition, various tools for the transformation of foreign formats exist.

  • Hypermake (formerly MakeIPF )
  • Phelsuma / 2
  • Vyperhelp
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