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From: Nina Barzgaran <nina -dot- barzgaran -at- barzgaran -dot- at>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:39:29 +0100

Ultimately, I agree with Helen, in this respect:
Confluence has certain limits as do plugins for it. And soon into the more complex work of technical writing. Helen already pointed out its strengths.

Depending on your use case you may still be fine with it.

But I strongly advocate too, that one uses this kind of experience by others during the research for a tool, before deciding.

I am not advocating another tool instead, here. They have been listed already, they are online to be found on fine sites that do lots of evaluation for you.

@Robert: I hope to make this as clear as possible: I am not saying it does not work.
Again, *it depends on requirements* - and people directly concerned - to find and define a proper toolchain for YOUR setup, whichever that would be...

Nina

Am 12/12/2020 um 01:56 schrieb Robert Lauriston:

In using K15t's tools for three years, I didn't come across anything I
needed to do that I couldn't. There was nothing I would have done
differently if I'd been using Flare or FrameMaker + RoboHelp /
ePublisher. And the review process was much more straightforward than
distributing PDF or DOCX files.

I don't believe I could have done the kind of complex cross-version
reuse I've been doing with Paligo. Scroll Versions can handle many
common kinds of reuse but, from what I've heard from people using it,
not that.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:29 PM Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
To anyone searching the archives for information about Confluence, I stand by my comments.

There are use cases for Confluence. It is a great information-exchange medium amongst collaborating users. It is a good way to spin up minimalist project docs quickly. It isn't a great formal technical publishing platform for customer documentation. k15t has made a business out of trying to turn it into one, but for many of us, there are too many compromises that aren't necessary with other tools.
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