RE: Single-sourcing tool

["elizabeth j allen" <eja -at- samurai -dot- com>]

Unstructured Framemaker does not handle the complicated conditionals
required. :(

Structured Framemaker *may* depending what tool is used to publish the XML
output.

<end of my knowledge>

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth J. Allen
Technical Writer
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein


Sharon Burton said:
> FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher. Does everything you need. Most Tech
> Comm
> professionals know these tools so fining people who know them won't be
> hard.
>
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> sharon
>
> Sharon Burton
> CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting
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> Behalf Of elizabeth j allen
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:35 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Single-sourcing tool
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>
> Oh mighty techwhirlers, hear my plea!
>
> If you worked in a small department (2 tech writers) within a larger
> company (16,000+ employees worldwide), and you were given the task of
> recommending a tool to use, what would you recommend? But wait, there's
> more! Here's the info you have to base your decision on:
>
>      ? The current tool for technical manuals is LaTeX
>      ? The group of two may grow to a group of 5 before the end of the
> year
>      ? The growth is driven by massive new products being developed
>      ? The level of documentation complexity is increasing exponentially
>      ? Long learning curves for tools are *not* a good thing (see "LaTeX")
>      ? Single-sourcing is *required*
>      ? LaTeX is used because it supports complicated conditionals like:
>        \ifthenelse(A + (\not B + \not C))(true_statement)(false_statement)
>      ? The new tools need to support complicated conditionals
>      ? Your manager trusts your recommendation and needs it today
>      ? Whatever you recommend will be the tool you and your coworkers use
> for these new massive doc projects. They'll blame you if it sucks.
>
>
>
>
>


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