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Subject:Re: Moving away from MS Word? From:"SB " <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:29:38 +0300
Thank you for all the feedback.
I am also wondering about Master Documents in MS Word. I hear this tool is
much better now.
So how do I start investigating this?
1. Remaining with Word and use Master Documents? Possibly getting
someone deisgn a stable template? What about "single sourcing"?
2. Moving onto FrameMaker - it is a relatively serious transition,
which will probably be true for any new tool.
3. AutorIT?
4. HATT - not sure what that it
5. Arbotext - too expensive
6. Dita?
7. Other tools?
And then I understand that XML is now the growing trend. How does it relate
to documentation?
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