That's true I could've taken that route & simply dropped the text files into the storyline folder, but... well, call it a design decision.

My personal taste was to make it look as much a part of the native EQ help system as possible, though I admit your approach would be easier for most who aren't comfortable making the edit to the help.html file I mentioned.
For any who are curious, you should be able to simply change the file extension of the files I offer here from .html to .txt & drop them into your EQ game\storyline folder & then access this same information though your storyline system in-game. Not quite as slick, IMO, but it works.
I've since added a few commands I'd previously omitted previously into the help system. If there's any interest in this, I'll post an updated version.