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How about D) None of the above. Write what you need to write in Word. Hire Interleaf pros to do the Interleaf work. With all the shops that have dropped Interleaf, it ought to be easy to find a bunch of contractors who can take this on.
Dick
Mike Johnson wrote (snipped):
>In the near future our tech pubs group is going to be producing a large
>hardware documentation set that will consist of several new volumes
>mingled with boatloads of existing volumes produced in Interleaf by
>another tech pubs group in France. The existing Interleaf volumes will
>require considerable revision.
>We see three alternatives:
>
>1. Get several copies of Interleaf and do everything in Interleaf.
>We have one writer who had some positive experience with Interleaf
>several years ago, and the rest of us will have to learn it from
>scratch.
>2. Get FILTRIX or a similar filter program that will translate the
>Interleaf to FrameMaker, and use FrameMaker to do the new work.
>
>3. Get FILTRIX or a similar filter program that will translate the
>Interleaf to Word, and use Word!
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