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Susan Duncan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:54 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help
Quoting Michael McCallister <Michae -dot- McCallister -at- msbinfo -dot- com>:
>
> Well, DocBook isn't really a tool, just a DTD. However, it should do the
> trick as far as what she wants to do, and there are tools available to
> produce valid DocBook files (I'm thinking specifically of
OpenOffice--Bruce
> Byfield, is that right?). Will Frame 7?
>
OpenOffice.org does Simplified DocBook. Simplified DocBook is a sub-set of
the
complete DocBook, with fewer tags, so that it's easier to use. It's a
popular
open standard for documentation.
Frame 7 can export to DocBook in structured mode, but, I wouldn't suggest
that
anyone use it. Structure FrameMaker, formerly known as FM + SGML, strikes me
as
needlessly complicated. Honestly, you'd be better off with a plain text
editor.
--
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