Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
If anybody wants a DocBook 4.5 or DocBook 5.x templates, I could do a
Structured FrameMaker implementation of them as I already produced
the FrameMaker EDD files from the DocBook 4.5 and 5.0 DTDs, although
Norman Walsh never completed the DTD for the current DocBook 5.0 two
years ago.
FrameMaker should be far better than what OOo could do as far as
DocBook is concerned because OOo is literally years behind Adobe
FrameMaker in any such DocBook implementation, IMO.
Surely FrameMaker would be a HUGE impediment to community
participation. It is expensive and AFAIK runs only on Windows.
Therefore only one or a very few people like you, who happen to have
it, would have to do the steps that involve using it. That's a BIG
bottleneck, similar to the one Clayton describes for the pre-wiki
version of the Developers Guide.
--Jean
FrameMaker 7.x is all that would be necessary. So, getting an Bay
version of FM 7.0 to 7.2 (from 2002 to 2007) would be cheap.
Besides, the XML editing would not necessarily be done with FrameMaker,
anyways. XML is XML, being largely platform independent. The heavy
lifting XML editing can be done by a simple text editor or any one
several free or cheap proprietary or open-sourced XML editors. Even OOo
Writer. However, any post editing should be done with something easy to
use--like FrameMaker or some open-sourced variants.
Gary
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