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Subject:Re: How prevalent is DocBook? From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:04:00 -0800 (PST)
In article 584bec67 -at- posting -dot- google -dot- com, rocketdoglv -at- earthlink -dot- net (Les Bonser) writes:
>
>Okay, so our team of three technical writers is split. One doesn't
>care what we do, one wants to write our own DTD, and I'm sort of
>leaning toward DocBook. My reasons for leaning that way are
>several-fold: 1) possible use at future employers (it'd look good on
>the ol' resume), 2) out-of-the-box support by the tools we're looking
>at (XMetaL and Epic), and 3) industry-standard.
>
We based our DTD on DocBook and spent about a year and a
half in meetings to trim it down significantly to meet our
own documentation requirements and structure. Only now,
probably about 6 years later, are we at the point where we
might have to consider, after very stringent examination,
incorporating a deviation or two.
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