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RE: Replacement for DOS Ventura Publisher for publishing book

Subject: RE: Replacement for DOS Ventura Publisher for publishing book
From: Phoebe Minias <phoebe -at- MIT -dot- EDU>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:10:36 -0500


Hi Barry,

He's looking to do the former (migrate the ASCII files to a new publishing
tool). The output comes from a very old Clipper database which is not
slated to be upgraded, at least for now.

Based on Stuart Burnfield's reply, it sounds like FrameMaker may be a
possibility (although when he called Adobe's tech support they squelched
that idea, not sure why).

Thanks so much to both you and Stuart for your very helpful and rapid
replies. I'll update the list if / when we find a solution.

Phoebe

Hi Phoebe,

Is your friend looking to migrate the ASCII files to a new word
processing/publishing tool? or upgrade the database in which the ASCII
files are stored?

Unicode solves all of the problems you are currently experiencing with
foreign language and special accent characters. The UTF-8 representation
of unicode supports single-byte languages such as English and
double-byte languages such as Japanese. Contemporary databases support
UTF-8 encoding. It sounds like your current database does not, but you
should confirm that first. (If using Oracle, check the database
character set parameter in the init.ora file). You can easily migrate
tab-delimited or comma-separated value ASCII files to a new database
using standard ETL tools (extraction, transformation, loading). If using
Oracle, you can use Oracle SQL*Loader.

If you want to import the ASCII files into a new word
processor/publishing tool, I don't know of a way for the target tool to
recognize the unique tags you mention in your ASCII files outside of
using a macro. I'm only familiar with Word and FrameMaker. Maybe someone
else can speak authoritatively on that. AuthorIT uses SQL Server to
store content files, and yes you can easily import your ASCII files to
SQL Server. You can also encode SQL Server to use UTF-8. Any database
administrator or someone with database experience can help you with
that.

Write back if I can assist further.

Barry



Phoebe Minias
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MIT Student Services Information Technology
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