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You will find the Text to IPF conversion selection in the menu under "Options".

Open the text file you wish to convert and select "Text to IPF". A progress indicator will pop up and after the work is done the file will be saved in the same directory with, the same root filename, the extention ".ipf" and it will automatically load the ipf file into the editor. This conversion, along with the IPF code templates will give you a good start on converting existing files to help files or online books etc.

The IPF conversion will set up a general IPF skeleton for you to modify. Insert the code needed for special characters and truncate lines for the IPF compiler. Because it has to test every character of the file, it will take some time but it still beats doing it by hand.

We may add a compile button etc. to call the IBM Information Presentation Facility for compilation if there is enough interest.