David White <davidw@kencook.com> writes:
The company I work for is making decisions about its plans for future
docbook publishing and the current situation that Framemaker is in.
Given that Frame may not survive,
What makes you think Frame may not survive? Have there been rumors
about Adobe end-of-lifing it or something? It's still a really
powerful program and hard to imagine (for me at least) that's
it's not going to continue to be around for a long time to come.
I think one thing that's limiting Frame now is that you still need
a MIF parser to work with it. It wouldn't be to big leap for them
to move to replacing MIF with an XML-based vocabulary. Similar to
the OpenOffice XML format or WordML. Then we could work with Frame
files using whatever XML parser or XSLT engine we wanted.
and that docbook / XML is the format of choice for our
publishing needs. What are your opinions on software solutions
for a publishing department? Granted the department has
individuals of different roles such as writers and editors etc.
The tools I have seen are two fold: WYSWYG publishing (ala frame) via
Adobe InDesign (which I hear isn't ready yet to replace Quark or Frame
yet, dont know its DocBook abilities at all).
It doesn't make much sense to look for publishing tools with
specific support for DocBook. The DocBook XSL stylesheets
generates standards-compliant XSL-FO output. So I think maybe you
ought to be looking instead for tools that can work with XSL-FO.
--Mike