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
  

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