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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: looking for Framemaker -> SGML DocBook DTD (and DkBk -> Fmk) free tools
There's a MIF manual online in FrameMaker. You may want to print it out, or make a PDF of it (it is reliable, instructive, and huge). I can't help much with the MIF backend in Jade. Try contacting ISOGEN, mailto:sgml@isogen.com. Be prepared for a step learning curve if you want to use DSSSL, unless of course you know Scheme or another Lisp language in advance. There's quite a lot of resources for DSSSL and Jade; start your search at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/dsssl.html. Currently, we use OmniMark a lot to convert SGML source files to various other formats, including MIF. We went this avenue after growing tired with FrameMaker+SGML's EDD, which lacks a proper programming language (which OmniMark isn't quite either, BTW). While it is possible to extends Framemaker+SGML's built-in conversion facilities using the Frame API, it is a bit costly in terms of development effort. The caveat is, whether you go one or the way to unstructured MIF, that the FrameMaker document is "for presentation only"; there is no safe and easy way to round-trip between SGML and unstructered FrameMaker documents. Don't expect to be able to use FrameMaker as your SGML editor unless you actually use FrameMaker+SGML and develop a FrameMaker+SGML application. Kind regards, Peter Ring -----Original Message----- From: Sylvan Ravinet [mailto:sylvan@ravinet.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:00 PM To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: looking for Framemaker -> SGML DocBook DTD (and DkBk -> Fmk) free tools Could you tell me where I could find more general information about MIF? Do you have also some kind of quick list of steps to guide me through these (that seems complicated) processes? Thank you for your help, Cheers, -Sylvan Peter Ring wrote: > > A recent version (I use 1.2.1) of Jade includes a MIF backend (use the > option '-t mif'), created by Kathleen Marszalek and Paul Prescod and > sponsored by ISOGEN. There's a description of the features and > shortcomings of the MIF backend in the documentation (in the > distribution or look at http://www.jclark.com/jade/mif.htm). __________________________________________________________________ My Mission Statement: "We are what we repeatedly do. Sylvan Ravinet Excellence, then, is not an act, mailto:sylvan@ravinet.com but a habit." ICQ #30681342 | IRC:nuujack Aristotle Please check out http://www.ravinet.com in the coming weeks. __________________________________________________________________ Software Engineering Student, Tampere University of Technology Feel free to come by! Insinöörink. 60B 129, 33720 Tampere, FIN
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