Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

[Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> You might be better off with a plain text editor. I
> might be better off 
> with a plain text editor. There are an awful lot of
> writers, however, 
> who most certainly would *not* be better off with a
> plain text editor, 
> including the hundreds of thousands of people who
> already know Frame 
> well (many of whom like it quite a lot)  and who do
> not know, or wish to 
> know, much about markup languages.

Tool wars. Bah. With regard to structure/XML, pretty
much all work well, as long as they have XML i/o
capability. That's the beauty of XML. The rest of the
baggage is specific to the core demand the tool fills
(in FM's case, that's print).

And, plain text editor? Bah. XML Spy. I'll take
automation over ego any day. ;)

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Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)

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immediately put a hand on your wallet and cover your groin."
      -- Geoff Hart

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