Re: (Specific) technical writing tools defined

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks, all. I'm now much better informed as to these two XML editors.

Chris

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:

> Epic Editor was the old name, going back several years now. It's very much
> alive as Arbortext Editor. IBM uses a customized in-house version to
> produce all of their tech pubs (except, I think, Redbooks, which are still
> done in FrameMaker). We use V5.4 at my company.
>
> It's a very good and powerful (and expensive) tool for editing XML and
> SGML files. The editing window is semi-WYSIWYG. The only thing I don't like
> is that it's poor for global find-and-replace. I use a text editor (jEdit
> or TextPad) for that.
>
> The vendor is PTC (http://www.ptc.com/products/arbortext/). If you want
> to know more, ask away.
>
> Regards,
> Stuart
>
>
> Chris Morton said:
> > So is EPIC now antiquated?
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot-
> com> wrote:
> > Epic was the name of the XML editor in the Arbortext authoring
> > environment. Quite separate from Oxygen.
>
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