On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ted Kosan wrote:
> What do other people think of the possibility of using Forrest for our
> documentation needs?
First impression, very nice. However I do have some questions:
- Is Forrest able to handle large multi chapter documents? All the
webpages have the 'printer friendly' button, but that's only that single
page and I would like our pdfs to contain all chapters, not one pdf for
each chapter.
- What would we use to edit the documents and diagrams? I'm not
particulary fond of having to edit XML files when creating documentation.
The tags tend to distract from the contents... (would that be one of the
reasons the word userbase outnumbers the TeX [or insert your favorite
here] userbase??)
BTW, my second concern is valid for docbook as well. XmlMind XML Editor
enables more or less wysiwyg editing, but it's not OpenOffice.
The options so far are (if I remember correctly):
* OpenOffice
+ free full blown office suite with editor and graphics module
+ wysiwyg
= XML based storage, however with proprietary DTD
- large (a lot of disk space and not very fast)
- no pdf creation without commercial plugins (afaik)
* DocBook
+ XML standard documents use whatever editor you like
+ output to pdf, html, rtf and more
- no real wysiwyg tools for editing
- no standardized graphics input format
* Forrest
+ XML documents
+ ouput to HTML and pdf
+ standard graphics format????
- no wysiwyg editors
Please help by adding to/correcting this list...
Regards,
Jac
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Jac Kersing Technical Consultant The-Box Development
j.k...@th... http://www.the-box.com
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