David Cramer (Tech Pubs)wrote:
> Actually, it wouldn't bore me to hear why you chose a DocBook-based
> tool chain.
David,
thanks for your help. Sometimes things are so simple :) ...
MThe story behind me switching to DocBook is quite simple and quickly told:
I finally decided to completely switch from Windows to Linux a year or
two ago. I wrote all my documentation with FrameMaker (FM) but since
there is no Linux version of this software I had to use VMware.
There now is an approach that documentation should be managed and
released with help of a CVS since our developers should be able to read
and correct "their" parts. The native FM file format is a binary one and
can not simply be checked in into a CVS. A really huge CVS system would
be the result. Additionally single-source publishing would be nice
because I'd like to add HTML online help to our products without writing
stuff twice.
So I needed an easy-to-write, easy-to-maintain format which brought XML
to my mind. Our output format for online distribution as well as for
print is PDF. I learned about DocBook while I was looking for an
applikation which can output HTML and/or PDF from XML. That's it in
short :) ...
Now I'm making my first steps with DocBook ...
--
Tom
