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Help & Manual supports has a full command line publishing interface that supports conditional include options, batch and INI files, skins and variable definitions. This make it possible to fully automate your publication process. The command line processor is a console-only process that does not open the main Help & Manual program and returns standard exit codes that can be captured and processed by batch files.

Generally, you will only need to use the command line interface for particularly complex publishing tasks and for integration into your regular software build process. If you just want to generate multiple versions and output formats in a single process it is easier to use publishing tasks, and you can also use the Publishing Task Manager to auto-generate batch files that you can use in your own automated build processes. You can also call your defined publishing tasks via the command line interface as well, using the /TSK= switch.