Toolchain: SGML DocBook 3.1/Jade/DSSSL
At the moment, we create our printed output by building RTF files as per the above toolchain, and formatting in MSWord. Unfortunately, MSWord misbehaves very badly with very long (>200 pg) documents, refusing to recognise images. I've found that StarOffice is somewhat better here: images get recognised, but a whole bunch of other problems are introduced. Oversized images are scaled non-uniformly, tables of contents are trashed, and margins are screwy. Pardon my high-falutin' tech talk. The problems that StarOffice introduces can all be fixed, but the end result is a very labour-intensive process. So we're looking for alternatives. One of our sysadmins is currently investigating PDF builds via jadetex, but he's finding that tables are giving him no end of grief. Another potential route to long-document nirvana is to build to MIF, and put the finishing touches on in Framemaker. (Note that this approach sidesteps the SGML side of FM, essentially using it as a souped-up word processor.) But we don't use FM at the moment, so I would like to know if the list-members think that this approach is likely to bear fruit. Any comments? Thanks, Andrew Westcombe Documentation Manager Gaming and Entertainment Technology (GET) www.getsystems.com ph. +61-2-9419-2000 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------ Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein --Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus