Thanks all … for your kind concerns about me trying to do a docbook experiment
in the DITA ages ….
I have been working with docbook (variants) already back in the FrameMaker 5.5
days, so for docbook has been there in FM, I know. And it still is.
In the early days this < support> was not based
Whoa ... FrameMaker has "supported" Docbook for many releases. But the
support is generally poor, and is for a relatively ancient version of
DocBook (4.1).
Anybody who attempts to use FrameMaker for a real Docbook-based workflow
(particularly for authoring) is in for a lot of hurt. Which is a
I couldn't find any documentation of DocBook support before FM12. Not
that there's much in FM12's docs, either.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Scott Prentice wrote:
> FM has provided support for docbook since 7.2. It's been weak and incomplete
> (as it still is), but it's been there. If you pok
FM has provided support for docbook since 7.2. It's been weak and
incomplete (as it still is), but it's been there. If you poke around in
the structure applications, you'll see an xdocbook app.
Wim .. in order to use docbook effectively in FM, you'll need to do a
bit of development work, both
I doubt there are many FrameMaker DocBook users, since support was
just added in FM12. In structured mode it should not convert XML to
.fm.
If you don't have FM12, I suggest downloading an eval copy.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote:
> Now when I open a docbook book
Hi Wim,
the new FM 12 XML Author tool would create book files, but only xml
files for chapters inside etc.
So your authors could work with this tool. It looks like this is want
you want (any DTD would work).
Publishing would be done afterwards with a regular FM (not necessarily
FM 12).
be
I’ll redefine my question:
for a specific use case I’m investigating the option of using a docbook book
file to let my client edit and maintain their docbook-based xml files in a
book-like setting. Analog to the ditamap.
Now when I open a docbook book file in FM, FM converts it directly to a FM
FrameMaker 12 is alleged to support DocBook.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote:
> Hi, are there any docbook users out there …?
>
> I want to make a docbook book file with referenced 'chapters' (xml). To be
> maintained in Framemaker as XML. Is that possible at all?
>
Hi, are there any docbook users out there …?
I want to make a docbook book file with referenced 'chapters' (xml). To be
maintained in Framemaker as XML. Is that possible at all?
Any help from docbook gurus appreciated …!
Thanks,
Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
Wim Hooghwinkel
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