RE: What Program Do You Use for Software Documentation?

Subject: RE: What Program Do You Use for Software Documentation?
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "Paul Weir" <Pweir -at- bju -dot- edu>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:05:10 -0500

I do take exception to including Flare, RoboHelp, etc. as single
source tools. They normally require some other tool to produce the
text, and often the formatting before transforming it. As such they
are transformers and are only marginally single source tools. They
are more accurately a multiple plath transforming tool.

Scott

At 3:42 PM -0700 10/22/08, Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
>A hammer is a fine tool for smashing your thumb, but it stinks for
>authoring documents that call for sophisticated single sourcing and
>reuse. Similarly, Word is a great tool for some ends. So is FrameMaker.
>However, neither Word nor FrameMaker facilitate sophisticated single
>sourcing or reuse ("snippets"). If you don't need those things,
>fantastic. Word or FrameMaker may be just the ticket; if you do, you'll
>want to avoid both Word and FrameMaker and look to H&M, Flare, RoboHelp
>or AuthorIt.
>
>Leonard
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What Program Do You Use for Software Documentation?: From: Paul Weir
Re: What Program Do You Use for Software Documentation?: From: quills
RE: What Program Do You Use for Software Documentation?: From: Leonard C. Porrello

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