A tool for turning plain-text into an include-able #define for C projects. The primary purpose of this utility is to turn a help text document into printable help text from within C for command line utilities with a --help option.

Clone the git repository and make:

git clone https://github.com/linguini1/help-text.git
cd help-text
make all

For usage hints, call help-text -h. Yes, this utility's help text was generated using itself.

Once complete, you can include the generated help text macro in your C project. Here are two valid ways of generating the help text macro.

cat myhelptext.txt | help-text > myhelptext.h
help-text -i myhelptext.txt -o myhelptext.h

You can use the -I flag of your compiler to include your generated help text header file as part of your build process, or you can include it directly with the #include directive.