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Subject:RE: UNIX and Windows documentation From:"Spreadbury, David C." <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- marconi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:01:28 -0500
Did this same process with a hardware document where the hardware was
supported on three different operating systems (Solaris, IBM, and Silicon
Graphics). Used the same features as mentioned below. Works like a charm.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Henning [mailto:henning -at- r-l -dot- de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:51 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: UNIX and Windows documentation
>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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