[rescue] [off-topic] What was this markup language?

Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare) stefan.skoglund at agj.net
Wed Dec 9 09:06:03 CST 2015


tis 2015-12-08 klockan 13:27 -0600 skrev Lionel Peterson:
> At previous employer we used FrameMaker for all project
> documentation, but we
> had a very special need - we would write one comprehensive manual,
> covering
> all features, then mark certain descriptions/sections as
> 'conditional', then
> print client-specific manuals. Our clients (RBOCs) would pick and
> choose which
> features they would fund, so their manuals only documented the
> features each
> company funded.
> 

Cross-indexing between multiple documents and with support for
extracting to different formats (pdf and sgml)

> FrameMaker was great, once you understood the model it worked with...
> 

It is still (for technical publishing) GREAT sw.
LaTeX with pdf support is another tool for this.


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