Yesterday, I blogged about a survey I created on innovations in Help authoring tools.

What I was trying to consider was the difference between new features and innovations, which is why I didn't ask how useful the features were.

For example, one of the features in RoboHelp 6 is command line publishing (they call it "command line compilation"). This is something that RoboHelp users have asked for, but while it's new to RoboHelp, it's not new to HATs. You may have only heard about it in January 2007 when you saw that it was included in RoboHelp 6. Or you may have heard about it years ago because it was a feature in AuthorIT or Doc-To-Help or one of the other HATs.

Basically, I'm not interested in whether or not you use RoboHelp, or whether or not the tool you use includes command line publication...what I want to know is, when you first heard about it, did you think it was a really cool idea?

As always, please let me know if you have any questions :-)