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Subject: DOCBOOK: Choice of environment for working with Docbook?
Dear Norm, and all This mail is a request for advice: what software do you use to author Docbook? I have recently joined the corporate communications division of a software company. At the moment, they are using M$ Word for their documentation, and it is putting them through a fair amount of suffering (for example a 200-page document including 150 graphics taking up 64Mb and causing Word to crawl), not to mention all the other obvious reasons for using a proper documentation standard. I have suggested migrating to Docbook, and they are quite willing to consider it. However, they wouldn't recognize Emacs if it bit them on the ankle (or, more likely, sat on them), so I would like to try a more WYSIWYG solution, and Arbortext seemed the obvious choice. However, I was directed to the prices in Euros, and they seem astronomical. I was thinking 650 EUR to 1200 EUR (that's Euros), but the "DocBook Application" weighs in at 15000 EUR [1], not counting maintenance. !!! The documentation we handle consists of User Guides, Developer Guides, Functional Specifications, White Papers, online help in Windows HTML Help format, and context-sensitive help in apps. There'd be about twenty of each, and we'd like to publish to paper, HTML, and PDF at least. We are not the "Leading reference information publisher" type of shop that Arbortext features in their News Releases, we just want to ship proper docs with our products. I would be very thankful for any stories or advice from the list. What do you use, on what scale, and what does it cost? Is it easy (or possible) to teach to Word-users? Regards, -- jean@mosaicsoftware.com . ... .... ///\\oo//\\\ Technical Writer [1] http://www.arbortext.com/Europe/EuroPrices/body_europrices.html
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