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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Choice of environment for working with Docbook?
Hi Gershon Thank you very much for the trouble you took with your reply. I've interspersed my comments below .. > Summary: > I recommend you use XML rather than SGML version of DocBook for your > needs. I have no problem with this, other than that I haven't played with XML yet. I did do a TEI SGML edition of some volumes of poetry. But it looks as if the tools are geared to handle the step to XML. > Depending on your documentation needs, you may need to create a > subset or extension of DocBook. Most probably a subset. > You need not purchase their DocBook Application--you can create your > own. If you are familiar with SGML/XML markup, FOSIs and DSSSL, it > will cost you very much less than 15000 Euros to set up. While the acronymns aren't quite a foreign language, I'm not on terribly intimate terms with them. I do think I'm adept enough to seek out and tweak the available docbook2whatever scripts out there. It will be rather "by the seat of my pants", though. > Company B had a very small budget, so we used WordPerfect9 for > authoring and publish via Jade and DSSSL stylesheets. This is probably most like my initial setup, though at present I'd slot in Emacs for authoring. I saw something called S4/TEXT [1], which pushes Word into the authoring slot. Having struggled with Robotext, which also inhabits Word, I'm not sure that I'd like to try that. [1] http://www.i4i.com/biz_s4text.htm > The main reason for using SGML was because they required single > sourcing to produce different versions of the document using > conditional processing. This would certainly be true of us as well. > I also use Omnimark to convert from Word to XML. Does Omnimark handle native Word format? (!) Or are there intermediate steps? > For your purposes, one or more copies of Epic Publisher and Epic > Editor for the rest is all you need (provided you already have Adobe > Acrobat installed on the Publisher computers). This sounds about right. > You certainly can train Word people to work with Epic. I suggest you use a > qualified Arbortext trainer for this. I'll look for one in South Africa :) Thanks, -- jean@mosaicsoftware.com . ... .... ///\\oo//\\\ Technical Writer
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