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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] (newbie) page numbers in header
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
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