I've evaluated a number of DocBook and DITA authoring tools. With Oxygen XML, which is the easiest I've tried, I created a sample project and generated output within ten minutes. It took me somewhat longer in XMetal but it wasn't hard.
FrameMaker 10 is by far the most opaque putative DocBook / DITA authoring tool I've looked at. The help resources are all for FrameMaker 7.x: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/framemaker/?trackingid=ZLQL#xmldita The Using the DocBook Starter Kit and Using the DocBook Starter Kit guides are just a few pages of very abstract information. It references the Structured FrameMaker Developer’s Guide, which I guess has been supplanted by the "Structured Application Developer Reference." Neither those docs nor the sample files bundled with FrameMaker gave me any clue of how to create a project from scratch or port an existing unstructured FrameMaker doc. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Scott Prentice <s...@leximation.com> wrote: > > I'm not terribly surprised about this. No, there's nothing very useful that > ships with the product. There's a lot "out there" in blogs and wikis and > maillists .. but unless you know where to look or who to ask, you're probably > out of luck. Yes .. posting to the FM forum should have provided more than > just a reference to the docs. > > The problem is that "creating a DITA project" in FrameMaker is really no > different than doing that in any other XML authoring tool. You do need to > understand the structured FrameMaker UI, but DITA is DITA regardless of the > tool. > > I often answer those posts on the FM forum, don't know why I missed it. :o > > ...scott > > > On 5/17/12 3:04 PM, Fei Min Lorente wrote: > > I was really surprised by the thread in the link below. I’d heard that Adobe > added cookbooks and samples to the more recent versions of FrameMaker to help > people get started with structure, and especially DITA. Is that all hype and > no substance? Are you still hearing that people have trouble using DITA out > of the box with FrameMaker 10? _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
