Create a help file in IPF format from Markdown sources

Create a document in IPF format from Markdown sources, with a Lua script and a Makefile.

The IPF format (for Information Presentation Facility) was the format of IBM help files.

Markdown to IPF

The Mardown files are converted to a single IPF file by the script md2ipf.lua.

IPF to INF

The IPF file is compiled to the INF binary format using WIPFC.

DocView

The INF files can be opened in DocView.

User's guide

(Instructions for Linux.)

Install wipfc

git clone https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2.git
cd open-watcom-v2/bld/wipfc
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install DocView

To do.

Launch the final command

Once you have edited in Makefile the paths to wipfc and DocView, you can launch the final command.

make