I've been managing a 7-writer, 42-project merged WebHelp help
system for five years, and meta tags have never created a problem
for me
As to the concern that they make it "more complicated to fix
things for our junior writers and those not too familiar with
HTML," why would either of those groups be messing around in the
HTML code, anyway? None of my other authors are allowed to mess
with the code or with the style sheet.
Mike, this should be a non-issue: RH does a lot of work under
the covers to 1) present a view very close to what your output will
look like, and 2) provide multiple outputs based on a single set of
source files, including all the navigation stuff. If it needs to
add some proprietary code, which doesn't show for the end user, so
what?
Don't forget, you're producing a help system, not a cute
little web site, here. Sure, I created a couple of web sites myself
using Frontpage, but that was carrots; this is oranges.
Good luck,
Leon