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Chapter 2. Creating MS Windows Help Files > Help-RTF Basics
2.1. Help-RTF Basics
A Help-RTF file starts as basic RTF, but contains a list of topics. A topic consists of paragraphs preceded by a topic definition, and followed by a \page command. Informally, I’ll also refer to topics as screens or topic-screens.
A topic definition is a bunch of lines that give the help compiler some metadata about the screen. Strangely, the \footnote command is used for each part. A topic definition consists minimally of this syntax:
