> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: non-IBM documentation (Friday, but on-topic) > > > 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. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe
Thanks. A bit discouraging that nobody is using any FOSS software such as OpenOffice.org or scribus or LaTex. I create PDFs directly from OpenOffice. I haven't tried scribus or LaTex. I don't know anything about Bookmangler, but isn't is derived from DCF? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
