[FM Discuss] generating online help

[politube]

Hi,
 
    I just joined the list... I recall seeing a floss manual 
presentation at the transmission.cc meet recently. I would like to 
create online help for www.politube.org and some suggestions were that I 
talk to flossmanual about this. Ideally I want to have the following 
features:

    * create context sensitive help (e.g. on a particular page of the
      site user clicks help and the help for that page opens in a pop-up).
    * the software for the help files is maintained on someone else's
      service. I don't want to maintain a CMS/Wiki just for this purpose.
    * the service should be minimally customizable to support the L&F of
      the site.
    * searching/indexing ought be supported
    * As a last nice-to-have feature, users would be able to update the
      help files.

Really, I think that this a job for a single CMS serving several 
websites, not only containing help, but perhaps about pages, terms of 
use etc. (which really classify as help, right?).

As a minimal solution, perhaps I could use floss manuals to compose the 
help, then click a button to generate/export HTML, which I tweak to 
support my L&F. Is this a possibility? I sure miss the searching 
capability on this though?

thanks in advance for your suggestions

Kuros