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(ok, by now it's obvious I'm a Book fan - but anyway...
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From: <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
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> You have two basic choices. Interleaf (now Quicksilver) and FrameMaker.
>
> IBM BookMaster, if memory serves, worked with SGML. If you are not,
> then you can drop Quicksilver and FrameMaker + SGML. That would still
> leave the plain vanilla FrameMaker.
> Anyway, you can use a script to change your command markup to Maker
> Interchange File format commands and bring it into FrameMaker.
Book and SGML were similar, but not the same, just like any 2 GMLs are similar,
but not the same.
And Book could probably pretty easily be converted into HTML and then dumped
into Word, for that matter. Tables would probably be the biggest pain to
convert.
> The best bet is that your time to publish would be drastically cut
> down. I can barely remember, but doesn't BookMaster work on command
> markup of a text file?
Possibly, the time to publication could be cut, but not probably. That is
probably also affected by the user's perception of how difficult Book is to use.
And yes, Book used text markup, just like HTML and XML does. Not that big
a'deal, once ya get used to it.
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