I tried DocBook. In the end I just gave up and went back to Word. i
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:21:01 PM BST From: Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster..... > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Alan Ackerman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now, of course, I need to track down all the people that still have Script files that use BookMaster > > in them. How the heck do I do that? > > My conversion was easier. Late 1999, senior mgmt could not get someone > to confirm the font libraries were Y2K ready. As the directive was to > remove all software that was not Y2K-ready, we lost most of the AFP > fonts. And so my documents did not format anymore (I should never have > used specific font names, but hey... ) After hacking the font names I > could format, but it did not look as before. Important things are > still in PDF from the old days. > > The B2H package seems to do a fair job converting a Bookie source to > HTML. I have never used it myself. For new development I am seriously > looking at generating SGML and run DocBook on Linux to render the > document (it does HTML pages, PDF, etc). I've starting things in a PC > editor a few times, but find it so tedious that it takes away the > motivation to finish the document. > > Rob >
