Gary posted this to the Authors list, so I'm forwarding it here where the
discussion is taking place.
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Subject: [authors] fm for Macintosh or UNIX available cheap
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:44:27 -0400
From: Gary Schnabl <gschn...@swdetroit.com>
To: auth...@user-faq.openoffice.org
BTW, FrameMaker 7.0 is available for the Macintosh. And recent UNIX
versions of FrameMaker are also available. Anything in the FM7 series
should be cheap via eBay. FrameMaker 8 or 9 would not be necessary for
DocBook, as even the "ancient" (still used in some houses) pre-2002 FM 6
would suffice.
UNIX isn't Linux. Do any versions work on Linux? When you say "cheap", what
approximate price do you mean? Can people outside the US also get FM cheap?
Google "XML editors" for searching several free or cheap shareware XML
editors (48,000 hits--add freeware and there are still 16,000 hits).
It's been awhile since I looked for "free or cheap XML editors" so perhaps
things have changed. In my experience, the free or cheap ones were far from easy
to use for anyone not familiar with, and comfortable working with, XML code. Any
program that provided a reasonably WYSIWYG front-end, and was therefore easy to
use, was expensive. If something that fits my criteria has shown up in the past
year or so, I would genuinely like to hear about it.
Just get the appropriate DocBook DTD or other schema and start
converting any OOo documents into DocBook XML.
Someone would have to find -- or set up -- "the appropriate DocBook DTD or other
schema" and make it, plus instructions on what to do with it, available to
anyone who wanted to do this. I vaguely know what a schema is, but haven't a
clue how to choose one, put it to use, or explain to anyone else how to use it.
I've actually wanted to learn about this, and write about it, for some time, but
I don't even know where to start. The last time I looked, the explanations I
found made no sense to me; they relied on prior knowledge that I don't have.
However, a very detailed
OOo-to-DocBook style guide would be necessary so that useful structured
documents result.
What would this involve? Who would produce it? How would it be applied and by
whom? It sounds to me like another big hurdle, but I'd like to be wrong.
Barriers may not be insurmountable, but they are still barriers. And even if we
all thought your idea was the way to go, *someone* would have to lead the rest
of us by the hand, in order to implement the idea.
--Jean
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