RE: FrameMaker Vs Word

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike O. [mailto:obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: FrameMaker Vs Word
> 
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> A plague on both their houses - use Docbook/OpenJade.

I started reading the O'Reilly DocBook book, and 
basically broke my Linux by trying to install 
the tools that I *think* they were trying to tell 
me that I need, so I didn't get very far.

Also, that book seems to be aimed at all the UNIXes 
at once, so it's not clear which tools are needed 
or even what they are called for Linux.

I need to just:

a) write a book (product manual)

b) print it and create a PDF of it

c) maybe make an html/xml version


I'm a lone writer at a company that's still using 
Windows, but that is investigating a move to 
Linux.  That "lone writer" bit means that I don't 
have a department of specialists and experts to 
fall back on.  Experimenting must be done in my 
non-existent "spare" time, and at my expense.

Is there a big Linux DocBook HowTo somewhere 
that I've missed in all my googling?

What are the advantages -- to a lone writer -- 
of going with OpenJade and DSSSL, as opposed to 
XSL style sheets...  For that matter, is "opposed 
to" the right way to think of it?

Is OpenJade a complete solution? Or do you need 
to surround it with 27 other tools in order to 

a) do the work
b) make some usable output

Could you supply a detailed description of 
what you do to make a document happen using 
DocBook and OpenJade?  From typing the first 
word (in what editor?) to picking up your 
output from the company color printer and 
smiling at the loveliness of it all?

Does anybody on the list use DocBook/XSL?
What does your workflow look like?


/kevin


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