I'm off on one of my wild hares again. Or is that "wild hair"? No, my hair is mostly gone, so it must be hare.
All our "in house" documentation that we in Tech Services write is basically written "ad hoc" by us using MS Word and kept in a Windows LAN directory. Being an admitted anti-MS bigot, I really don't much like this. Not that anybody else cares, of course. I really don't much care for any "word processing" format for things which, IMO, should be well structured. So, what do you use? A word processor such as MS Word or Openoffice-org or maybe LOTUS? Some sort of document markup such as DocBook? typsetting such TeX? Framemaker? ISPF edit and keep it in a PDS as just plain text? Just curious. Feel free to ignore the nut in the wings if this is of no interest. As an aside, I'm looking at DocBook since it appears to be very popular in Linux (and I'm a penguinista!). I found a nice DocBook editor called XXE from XMLMind at http://www.xmlmind.com . The personal edition is good, but restricted as to what you can use it for. Since I'm just using it for learning, I'm OK. And it can be freely used for documentation which is part of an OpenSource project. Or when the results are licensed using "Creative Commons" (the "open source" language for written language). What I haven't figured out is one minor thing. How to actually create a readable document from the DocBook xml file. <grin> But DocBook supposed to be usable to create UNIX "man" pages, HTML pages, XHTML pages, PDF files and other outputs. I just can't figure it out. And talk about very weird error messages! -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
