Help & Manual supports a number of command line options that make it possible to fully automate your publication process. If you also generate your documentation automatically from your application using XML you can produce and publish your documentation without ever opening Help & Manual manually.

Command line compilation supports Help & Manual's conditional include options. In combination with INI files and batch files this makes it possible to generate multiple versions of your project in multiple formats and to multiple destinations in one quick, efficient process.

The command line processor does not start the main Help & Manual program. It only opens a non-modal console, so it can be silently integrated in all automated build processes with batch files.

In addition to this you can also use command line compilation to apply project skins and redefine your project's variables with values taken from an external text file.