Re: Any UNIX users out there?

[David Blyth <dblyth -at- QUALCOMM -dot- COM>]

> FrameMaker was the most-often suggested, but Frame (apparently) does not import
> HTML or export it well.

Frame exports to HTML OK but insists on using Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS).
This is either great or awful, depending on your point of view.  I
usually
clean out the garbage.

Frame does not import HTML.  However, there is a product called
"HTML2Frame"
which converts HTML to MIF.  This is probably an FAQ and I might be able
to track down other 3rd party filters.

> the suggestion in-house is now that we use LYX (LaTeX) or TexInfo with
> help from importation and exportation software.

You could also use Nroff (or Troff, or Eroff).

>Has anyone out there tried this?  Is it going to be a huge pain?

Yes, I've done this.  Yes, it's a pain.  Conversely, done rightly,
it's also the most powerful DTP I've seen.  That is, I can _still_
do more using vi, Nroff, and sed scripts than I can do using FrameMaker
5.
(But Interleaf 5 came close, if you don't mind spending 10,000$).

Just a thought.

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Dave (The Man) Blyth
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QCT

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