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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Publication Strategy
Bennett Atkinson wrote: > I am a new OASIS member and need to find a better publication strategy. > Currently, I write aircraft manuals via the Air Transport Association SGML > Standards (ATA 2200) and have been using Docbook as an publication outline > to develop my documents for electronic text. My system consists of writing > the manuals in FM+SGML (Windows 2000) and then exporting them to SGML. I do > a quick transformation from SGML into XML (via editing in Notepad) and use You can use sx program from James Clark to get XML from SGML automatically. > XSL (based on the Docbook XSL) to style the document into HTML. The system > is very primitive (albeit very inexpensive) but it limits my ability to > reach my goal. Can anyone suggest any alternate methods? Also, the graphics > are done in TIFF/CGM format then translated to JPG? Is SVG better? You should use PNG or GIF as replacement of TIFF as JPEG can distort image little bit as it uses loose-compression. You can use SVG if you are sure that all of your users have SVG plugin installed. > My goal is to provide searchable, interactive manuals in which the user can > easily navigate and if so desired export to various formats (pdf, word, rtf, HTML Help and JavaHelp provide full-text search capabilities and easy navigation. They can be generated using standard DocBook XSL stylesheets and freely available tools from MS or Sun. > etc.) for downloading and printing. Unfortunately, I have no budget so I > cannot purchase any proprietary applications. You can get reasonable RTF and PDF using Jade and DSSSL stylesheets. Jirka -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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