Showing my age...
I have liked Waterloo Script since I was introduced to it and began writing Data Center Operation manuals using it.
I even wrote a Resignation Memo with it. For a while, I did have a 1600 BPI tape with both WSCRIPT and my 'resign script a0' file. Later I found that 2 college friends were using it to write their PHD thesis.
/Tom Kern On 12/21/2022 5:47 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
Either in this forum or in another I hang out in - I'm not sure which - a few months I remember a few comments about good ways to write extensive documentation. Somewhat to my surprise, quite a few people panned MS Word and Publisher and said the way to go is a good markup language. That's kind of nice to hear, because I’m having trouble with Word, especially when I want to add or change new appendices to my current work. At the time I thought I was mostly finished and didn't want to go through it all again, but now that fond wish seems less probable and I'm thinking maybe I should listen again to the recommendations I heard then and try out a few of them. By "extensive", in my case I mean something that can let me set the format for chapters and appendices and say half a dozen levels of paragraph headers, using legal paragraph numbering (ie 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc), lots of internal cross-references and maybe an external URL or three, a table of contents ... let's see ... probably not an index. What I imagine is that I would copy the text already written, insert the text markup tags, "compile" the results into Word or a PDF, and feel free to add cross references, paragraphs and appendices and recompile at any point thereafter. The documentation user needn't be aware of this process. Anyone care to tell me again what they like for this task, please and thank you? --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. -Martin Luther King, Jr */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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