I miss BookMaster too, because all of my system documentation is written in it, and we can't format documentation updates anymore. (The problem is that the sysplex licensing for SCRIPT/VS is prohibitively expensive. No SCRIPT means no BookMaster.)
I also have a system that creates both printed documentation and ISPF help from the same BookMaster source, by replacing the ISPF help engine with its own system (for help in the application, not across all ISPF). Now I have to maintain the help source by hand. IBM has a free BookMaster to HTML converter, which in theory could be used to convert our system BookMaster documentation to HTML, but in practice it is too buggy. I've tried fixing some of the bugs but get bogged down in trying to figure out what CSS to generate. > (though the script underpinnings, not so much) Agree. SCRIPT/VS macros are the hardest programs I've worked in. The macros look like a cat walked across the punctuation keys, and every single character is critical. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 10:34 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: z/Architecture Principles of Operation pdf On Nov 15, 2021, at 08:38:32, Ian Worthington wrote: > > I loved bookmaster back in the day (though the script underpinnings, not so > much), never really found an adequate tool to replace it. Tried lyx for a > bit and was finally persuaded to use latex, but it's still not as productive > as bm was. > Anyone know what IBM uses these days? > For an arbitrarily selected PDF manual: 543 $ pdfinfo .../ZOS24PDFKIT-1Q21/ZOSV2R4-\!Q2021/Links/z⧸OS\ MVS/z⧸OS\ MVS\ JCL\ Reference Title: z/OS: z/OS MVS JCL Reference Creator: AH XSL Formatter V6.6 MR8 for Linux64 : 6.6.10.40521 (2019-09-24T09:58+09) Producer: Antenna House PDF Output Library 6.6.1502 (Linux64) CreationDate: Sun Dec 13 19:29:01 2020 MST ModDate: Sun Dec 13 19:29:01 2020 MST Custom Metadata: no Metadata Stream: no Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 760 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Page rot: 0 File size: 3650343 bytes Optimized: yes PDF version: 1.6 544 $ -- gil
