atw: Re: Product of choice
- From: Naomi Kramer <nkr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:00:10 +1000
There is definitely a third-party plugin available for InDesign
crossrefs ($30-40?)... I THINK there's also an indexing one available.
Actually, I think it might be Sonar who do the InDesign plugins too...?
(have pity. It was a long, long time ago)
- Naomi
>Christine,
>
>Unless InDesign has changed radically in the last
>couple of versions (my experience is with version 2),
>I think it would be an extremely poor choice for
>creating manuals. For example, it didn't (doesn't?) do
>cross-references, and I don't think it can create an
>index either.
>
>Lack of those features would surely be a show-stopper
>for a software manual.
>
>I seem to remember that PageMaker's indexing is poor,
>too, but someone once recommended a tool called Sonar
>Bookends to improve that. So that might be worth a
>look if you do stick with PageMaker (which at least
>your document maintainer is familiar with). If you're
>not doing so already, do use Story view to edit the
>text – it's a bit like Word's Normal view. I think you
>used to be able to choose Story from the Edit menu in
>PageMaker.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Craig
>
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