I'm in full agreement with Bergfrid, keep <topic> in there, Docbook 5 is
the way to go.
I was also horrified at the comment from Adobe on Docbook 5 support in
Framemaker. But I suppose that confirms that Framemaker is aimed at the
lower end of the market, not for professionals.
Ron
Bergfrid Skaara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Bob Stayton <
> <mailto:>> wrote:
>
> -snip-
>
> You ask "why not just use DITA?". I think there are going to be
> lots of answers and discussions about that. Just because someone
> wants to set their content up in a modular fashion does not mean
> they have to use DITA, if there is a good alternative. This
> proposal is for those who want to do modular content but don't need
> the special features of DITA, or who prefer to use DocBook markup
> and stylesheets.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> <mailto:>
>
>
> I could not agree more. We want to do modular documentation, and are
> required to publish PDFs. Customizing DITA to get decent and accepptable
> looking PDFs is extremely hard, and we do not want to venture down that
> road. DocBook's stylesheets, the new RelaxNG schemas, and the solid
> documentation for customizing them are superior.
>
> As Adobe said when I asked about DocBook 5 support in FrameMaker: "We
> have chosen DITA [and abandoned DocBook] because our focus is
> light-weight documentation and HTML-publishing."
>
> Best regards,
> Bergfrid Skaara
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Ron Catterall Ph.D. D.Sc.
http://catterall.net
