Thanks Rick - RoboWizard.com certainly is a good resource. I
see the advantage to using redirects is that you could more easily
edit the toc and index, however, when you're in RoboHelp designing
things every toc and index entry would appear - which could be a
bit confusing since that's not really how it would look in the
compiled version. The advantage to using alternate .hhc and .hhk
files is a clear separation, but it's certainly more difficult to
edit the alternate files. Truly it is a trade off. Both approaches
work but neither is ideal.
My suggestion to Adobe for a future release of RoboHelp would
be the ability to maintain multiple toc and index files within a
single project and assign build tags to them. Then, when editing
toc and index within RoboHelp you could select the toc or index
file on which you wanted to work. This would be similar to the way
you can define multiple "windows" with different properties. The
approach I'm taking right now is to have a different "window" for
each build tag with alternate toc files assigned to each
window.