McKown, John wrote:
You may be able to answer this, since you write it. Do you actually need to keep two original sources for your documentation? That is, one source for Bookmanager and a separate one for PDFs? I am not very knowledgable about producting either of these, but some clever "m4" macros might be interesting.
We maintain only one copy of the MS Word manual. Creation of PDF via PDFMaker is simple, but very slow. To convert to BookManager, we save the manual under another name, attach another template to it, and remove the table of contents. (Attaching the other template is just for aesthetics because we get a better result if we remove most of the formatting before converting to BookManager.) We then use BookManager Build on Windows to create the BookManager softcopy book. It's very fast. Even the most complex book takes less than a minute to translate!
Once all books are built, we upload to mainframe to have them indexed. We would also be doing the "new" PDF ALS indexing there as well ... *if* it actually worked. We're still waiting for APAR PK30944 to be solved. Unfortunately, in my experience BookManager-related software is one of the slowest support groups in all of IBM.
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