Thanks, Paul. XSL-FO, or something very similar, then, by the look of it? I had a brief liaison with the XML-based tDocBook some years ago which initially looked promising and then proved to be more effort than I really wanted in a bookie replacement. Best wishes,
Ian ... On Monday, November 15, 2021, 11:34:14 AM GMT-5, Paul Gilmartin <00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: On Nov 15, 2021, at 08:38:32, Ian Worthington wrote: > > I loved bookmaster back in the day (though the script underpinnings, not so > much), never really found an adequate tool to replace it. Tried lyx for a > bit and was finally persuaded to use latex, but it's still not as productive > as bm was. > Anyone know what IBM uses these days? > For an arbitrarily selected PDF manual: 543 $ pdfinfo .../ZOS24PDFKIT-1Q21/ZOSV2R4-\!Q2021/Links/z⧸OS\ MVS/z⧸OS\ MVS\ JCL\ Reference Title: z/OS: z/OS MVS JCL Reference Creator: AH XSL Formatter V6.6 MR8 for Linux64 : 6.6.10.40521 (2019-09-24T09:58+09) Producer: Antenna House PDF Output Library 6.6.1502 (Linux64) CreationDate: Sun Dec 13 19:29:01 2020 MST ModDate: Sun Dec 13 19:29:01 2020 MST Custom Metadata: no Metadata Stream: no Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 760 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Page rot: 0 File size: 3650343 bytes Optimized: yes PDF version: 1.6 544 $ -- gil