Re: UNIX and Windows documentation

[Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>]

>Has anyone been tasked with creating one set of docs for software that is
>available for multiple UNIX AND Windows platforms?
>[...]
>Does anyone have any suggestions for making this combined set of information
>manageable?

We have used conditional text in a similar situation: One set of source
files containing teh description for both Windows and Mac OS. Where there
were differences, we described both and marked the platform-specifgic
parts with an appropriate condition.

We then produced two sets of output files, one for each platform. In each
set, the non-applying parts were hidden. As John has already indicated,
this is very easy using FrameMaker and it Conditions feature.

Hope this helps
Jan Henning

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