OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread Scully, William P
In the day, I enjoyed using Document Composition Facility and BookMaster to create neat and consistently formatted documentation. In this day of Word (Ugh!), HTML, and OpenOffice (among others) I'd like to find a document template or CSS (Style Sheet) which will render my local doc in a manner

Re: OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
...@ca.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 03/02/2009 08:02 AM Subject: OT: Neat Documentation Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU In the day, I enjoyed using Document Composition Facility and BookMaster to create neat and consistently formatted documentation. In this day

Re: OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread David Boyes
Me too! Me too! I'd even chip in some money if someone knows someone capable of creating such a thing. BTW, I found a working copy of Bookie for OS/2 in my basement. I'm tempted to set up a way to submit batch jobs and send out PDFs via the web

Re: OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread Jack Woehr
Scully, William P wrote: In this day of Word (Ugh!), HTML, and OpenOffice (among others) I'd like to find a document template or CSS (Style Sheet) which will render my local doc in a manner visually consistent with IBM's documentation. IBM's documentation nowadays is visually consistent with

Re: OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: Instead of looking to the past of IBM, why not look to how documentation is currently served up by IBM? The new Eclipse-based IBM style is exemplary in attractiveness and ease of use, and at your fingertips when you download

Re: OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
William, I'd like to find a document template or CSS (Style Sheet) which will render my local doc in a manner visually consistent with IBM's documentation. Have you looked into OASIS DITA? I did at one point, but never got far into using it. It struck me as a good model/template for

Re: OT: Neat Documentation

2009-03-02 Thread David Boyes
On 3/2/09 2:10 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: Instead of looking to the past of IBM, why not look to how documentation is currently served up by IBM? The new Eclipse-based IBM style is exemplary in attractiveness