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Subject: Antwort: [docbook-apps] General question about creating docbook documents (maybeOT)
Hello Frank, I am looking for a similar solution for our department. I am responsible for the software documentation, and the system you are describing sounds really nice. So is it possible that I can have a look on it? Kind Regards Mit freundlichen Grüßen i.A. Alexander Rabenstein Verwaltung International Telefon: +49 7132 94-296046 Telefax: +49 7132 94-2248 LIDL Stiftung & Co. KG, Stiftsbergstraße 1, 74167 Neckarsulm Sitz: Neckarsulm, Registergericht Stuttgart HRA 102314, USt.-IdNr.: DE 145 803 808 Komplementäre: Lidl Stiftung & Co. Beteiligungs-GmbH, Sitz: Neckarsulm, Registergericht Stuttgart HRB 107937 Geschäftsführer: Marcus Gemmrich, Dr. Martin Golücke, Michael Grandin, Stefan Herold, Hartmut Kappes, Markus Karcher, Sven Kronenberg, Dirk Möbius, Eric Riegger, René Sandführ, Jörg Schönenberger, Alexander Sonnenmoser LSt Stiftung, rechtsfähige Stiftung privaten Rechts, Sitz: Neckarsulm Vorstände: Holger Albrecht, Gerd Chrzanowski, Robin Goudsblom, Karl-Heinz Holland, Patrick Kaudewitz, Hans Christoph Templin Von: Frank Arensmeier <frank@nikemedia.se> An: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Datum: 14.04.2010 10:02 Betreff: [docbook-apps] General question about creating docbook documents (maybe OT) Hi there. I would like to ask the list members: how do you create docbook- compilant XML documents? What does your workflow looks like so to say? Do you write XML files in a XML editor? A web interface? My apologies if this is slightly off topic. I am asking this purely because I am interested (of course...). My employer is a manufacturer of industrial goods and tools. Until now, all our technical documentation (mainly operating instructions and spare parts lists) have been made with Indesign. And over time, we faced some very big problems: 1) Because technical documentation must be translated into many different languages, providing translators with documents that they can edit has been a hassle. In the best case, some translators had access to Indesign and were able to edit the original document. Re- using existing translations though wasn't easy / possible with this approach. 2) Updating existing documentation depends on remembering. E.g if one needed to change a product name or some technical data, you must know the documents where that data appears (sometimes, several different documents are effected by a change and those documents had several different translations). A simple change could easily take several hours to do. 3) Keeping track of what was changed, when and by whom had been a real mystery and still is. A year ago or so, I was able to convince by employer to utilize a docbook-based workflow for creating technical documentation. At that time, I was looking for applications, tools and so on that would make this workflow feasible. Because some of the guys working with technical documentation are not very tech savvy, I was looking for a more or less intuitive, easy-to-use (web-based) solution - without much success. However, because I couldn't find anything affordable (some systems cost about 100.000 EUR), I sat down and developed a system by myself. The web-based system I came up with makes building a docbook XML file (and converting to PDF) a matter of drag-and-drop (with validation of course), it keeps track of all changes and it is comparably easy to use for a none-programmer. Besides that, having documentation in many different languages is now a no-brainer. But every now and then, I was wondering if there had been a more simple solution. Regards, /frank ps. if someone would like to have a look at the system, you are welcome to contact me off-list ds. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org
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