Re: Which is better, FM with DocBook or DITA

2007-06-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:56 +0100 8/6/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: If you decide to follow the DocBook route, you might be interested in the packaged DocBook product, DocFrame, from Scriptorium Press, which is designed to take some of the pain out of using DocBook with FrameMaker:

Which is better, FM with DocBook or DITA

2007-06-10 Thread mc...@allette.com.au
Diane Gaskill wrote: > Now I have another question, almost as complicated. Structured FM can > work with both OASIS XML standards: DocBook and DITA. But which one is > the better standard to use? Or does it make any difference? One of our > divisions in Japan has decided on AT with Docbook

Which is better, FM with DocBook or DITA

2007-06-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:56 +0100 8/6/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >If you decide to follow the DocBook route, you might be interested in the >packaged DocBook product, DocFrame, from Scriptorium Press, which is designed >to take some of the pain out of using DocBook with FrameMaker: >

RE: Which is better, FM with DocBook or DITA

2007-06-08 Thread Sarah O'Keefe
I appreciate the mention of DocFrame, but it's not a DocBook implementation___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit

Which is better, FM with DocBook or DITA

2007-06-08 Thread Gordon McLean
Depends on your needs Diane. And I wouldn't worry about FM 'playing' with either, getting the right standard is more important than the tool and FM is capable of round-trip to either standard. I'm assuming you will be storing the content as XML, pulling it from a CMS (or CCMS as I heard recently)