Re: Giving up on XML

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 3/15/07, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> While I am not Eric, may I ask a question?

Of course - and thanks for the multiple posts, and encouraging
off-list mails, too, David! That was very nice of you!

> Since Frame *can* create quite nice DocBook instances, and since it also
> handles illustrations with callouts, what is the question?

Can Frame output those illustrations + callouts to DocBook?

If yes, what are the tags it outputs for that particular purpose - to
include the image, and to locate the callout text, with (optionally) a
surrounding box, and (compulsorily) a pointer line + arrowhead
pointing to a specific location on the image?

I obviously haven't used Structured Frame, or I might have had a
clue... :-/ Sorry...

A lot of us TWs do callouts in Word and Frame. Before trying to jump
to DocBook, we want to know whether we can do certain familiar things
like callouts in Docbook directly, or whether we have to do the markup
in the bitmap itself and just include the image.

This is just one of the questions that many of us face, of course. The
beginning parts of the thread were statements that much of the
available documentation on DocBook is (as Eric's nice analogy to
racing cars and building engines goes) the nuts, bolts, cams and shims
view - while we're looking at it more from the user's point of view -
can we do this? If yes, how? If not, we can't move to DocBook unless
we can find a workaround.
Even examining Docbook for suitability for our own particular
requirements is an uphill task, given that we'd like a book or
documentation source that's task- or functionality-oriented, and
compares/associates stuff we regularly use in Word/Frame to how it
would be done in DocBook.

Cheers,
Ed.
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