At 01:07 PM 11/02/2010, Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: >I like the Scriptorium book a lot too. > >My only regret is that [Scriptorium] decided not to publish the "Structured >FrameMaker" version of it ... I hope that this happens sometime. I would >gladly buy it!
Me too. But I don't underestimate the work involved in designing the content for such a book. I'm sure one of the problems would be that one would have to write two books in one. On the one hand is the *present* mainstream (DocBook and other monolithic architectures), which are easier for unstructured diehards to grokk, but which can't provide a single content source solution. On the other are the "coming things" that we (as writers and content developers) can't ignore: DITA and maybe other granular architectures we haven't seen in public yet. I reckon it would need at least two authors and someone to keep bread on their table while they were doing it. That, of course, means establishing that there would be a sufficiently worthwhile ROI associated with such a project. Helen
