> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 11:28 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Philosophy: curiousity question > > In <4cfa646c.6060...@acm.org>, on 12/04/2010 > at 09:55 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> said: > > >Because of the complexity of the docbook approach, there has been > >pressure in recent years to go to a more update-friendly wysiwyg > >solution, > > In my experience, WYSIWYG[1] is not update friendly. > > >My own preference is OpenOffice. > > It's not as user hostile as m$ word, but I'd still prefer, e.g., > BookMaster. > > >it seems like MS Word more often tries to do too much > > It's not that it tries to do too much, it's that the attempts are > inept and don't allow the user to easily override the standard > behavior. > > >and makes erroneous assumptions about my formatting intentions. > > With no way to tell it "Do what I say and *only* what I say." > > >but to not violate my requirement for availability of MVS > >documentation, > > Run your web server on MVS. > > >There would also have to be some support to take a collection of > >separate related articles and assemble them into a hard copy manual, > > That might be harder. > > [1] What You See Is All You Get. No hint as to what will happen if > you change anything. I'll take a proper markup language, TYVM. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
In today's environment, though I love DCF and the old Script and GML, I'd go with Tex. Lyx and LaTex are good editors for Tex documents. And Tex is definitely up to the task of making professional documentation. Might go with Docbook too. "Word processing" and "document composition" are not the same thing! I hate WYSIWYG because it is an oxymoron. Carefully and lovingly create a beautiful document in MS Word (I dare you!). Now, change your printer. OOPS, the displayed document changed too! I've had that happen too many times in the past. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
