Advice for a document management system

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Plumber Bob wrote:
> I happen to be in the midst of migrating a 300-ish page document from
> Open Office to DocBook(v5) XML and rendering it with a very beta
> Apache Tomcat-based  application named "Calenco"
> 
>    http://trac.calenco.com/
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/calenco/
> 
> I haven't yet solved the problem of migrating Word / OO users to
> another friendly program that can edit DocBook XML, and I'm using
> emacs for the time being. Having said that, I've already received
> edits to the XML from programmers, and hallelujah, I can use "diff"!

I thought you were going to do the job of being the "friendly program"
for us users. :)

> DocBook v5 uses Uncode, so we expect multi-language translation to be
> more straightforward than using LateX. So far, I'm quite happy with
> multi-HTML and PDF output, complete with auto-TOC, indices, and
> embedded linking.
> 
> This whole effort is very much in progress, but for example, if I
> discover that Apache FOP (which renders the PDF) isn't capable of
> doing something (Aramaic, perhaps), then there are other tools that
> can be inserted to that spot in the rendering toolchain.
> 
> Imagine: treating documentation like software. Heresy!

Better than treating it like something brand new every time you have to
update a document.

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Len Sorensen
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