The original documentation was written with an IBM in-house product.
I was told that even if they provided the original files, they
wouldn't do anyone any good and was told it wasn't SGML based. I had
debated to repair the documents into something like FrameMaker, but
the time/cost benefits are not there that I can see.
If you know of any money available for a project like this, let me know.
David
David Thompson:
|The only reason I'm working so hard on this is that the documentation
|is really starting to fall behind some of the features. The internal
|documentation is just too hard to try and update by hand; whereas the
|html is quite easy.
I'm glad you're working on it. I personally refer to the PDFs right now,
so I'm wondering, is there a source format (SGML, etc.) that was used to
generate both the HTML and the PDF? Should there be?
I'm thinking not only of those that prefer PDF for on-line quick-ref, but
also those new users that prefer to learn from dead tree docs
(whip out those highlighters) who will want to "print the manual", complete
with a valid page number index.
Randy
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Lockheed Martin Operation Support
EPA Scientific Visualization Center
US EPA N127-01; RTP, NC 27711
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