atw: Re: Multi-purpose documents
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:22:49 +1100
Indeed, Andrea (T).
If it had not been for Rhonda (B)'s endorsement of AuthorIT and for Steve
(H)'s offer of his own undoubtedly fine edition making tool for Word, I
would have piped up sooner and, despite (or perhaps because of?) my
regular use of Word, would have proclaimed:
"THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR FRAMEMAKER!"
(Exit stage left as mild mannered reporter Hedley Finger dives into a phone
booth, pops on a cape, sticks his undies on the outside of his leotards and
turns into "The FrameMaster".)
In my experience, Howard (S) a structured version of FrameMaker is about
the only tool that you can depend on to do this stuff reliably, without losing
too much sleep.
Word can do almost anything, with the right skills and experience behind it
but, I wouldn't want to RELY on it for a job that can encounter so many
variables and that will need to enable future revisions across the
distribution spectrum that you propose.
Oh no. This has just opened up the Word vs Frame argument again.
Sorry Guys. :-(
HTH not hinders
Cheers,
Michael Granat
Write Ideas
At 15:12 21/2/2005, you wrote:
>I tried writing in MicroML once, in the beta version of Word '03. Bill's
>version of XML was not like the W3C version of XML, and I found it a bit of
>a bugger to use. Creating and adding tags is easy enough, but I dug myself
>into a massive hole trying to work out what to do about style sheets. There
>was no help or support, and none of the stuff I found in my researches (on
>W3C sites) worked properly. In the end, one of the programmers wrote a
>JavaScript. It still didn't work (at least, not up to the point where I last
>had involvement with the project), but at least that was no longer my fault.
>
>
>This situation may not apply to the real release (I haven't dared to try
>it!). However, I strongly recommend that you ply the Development Team with
>pizza, energy drinks (or coffee) and chips for at least a week before you
>try XML authoring in Word just in case. ;-)
>
>HTH, Andrea
Michael E. Granat
(QGTWD) (FOTROTWYB!)
T/as Write Ideas
E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/>
Without Prejudice.
E&OE.
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