Re: Novice tech writer seeking advice on tools.

[Stuart Burnfield <sburnf -at- au1 -dot- ibm -dot- com>]

I suggest you download the demo version of AuthorIT. It would handle your
requirements and output formats very well:
http://www.author-it.com/

There's an online 'knowledge center':
http://www.author-it.com/kc/index.mv

... and a user group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/authorit-users/

FrameMaker is a very good choice for PDF and Help output. It's possible but
not really practical to produce Word output from Frame.

AuthorIT and Frame do have their 'learning curve', but the effort you take
to learn how to use them effectively will be rewarded many times over. For
producing technical manuals I found them both easier to learn than MS Word.

Good luck.

Stuart

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