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| Task at hand:
| I have 4 manuals to write for a new product - an installation guide, a
| user's manual, and two system administrator manuals.
|
| Issue:
| All of these manuals must be translated into other languages. I
| am trying to
| come up with a way of writing/organizing the manuals such that when
| something changes or is updated, only that paragraph/section needs to be
| re-translated, not the entire manual or chapter (for translation cost
| reasons). Right now the plan is to have these manuals in HTML format. The
| easiest solution to me would be to write them in FrameMaker, and convert
| them to nice, clean, pretty HTML using WebWorks Publisher. However, the
| catch is that the translators use Word, not FrameMaker. HTML
| converted from
| Word is ugly. Another catch is that Word hard-codes its links, so
| if/when I
| need to update cross-references, links will break.
|
| Question:
| Anyone have any ideas as to a tool or method for constructing
| these manuals
| so that only a paragraph at a time will have to be re-translated?
