Hello Mike,
I have listened to the posdcast interview with you that is
available from
http://techwritervoices.
com/
This has provided me with some great insight into Flare. In
addition to the
technical aspects you have prsented in the Podcastabout, I
think what struck
me as most encouraging is your apparent willingness to
embrace and commit to
open and standards-based formats.
Of particular interest to myself and I think also the
community of Docbook
users, is just what level of support Flare will provide for
Docbook.
As you know, Docbook is a large schema with powerful options
for
single-sourcing, mutli-channel publishing and customization
of
transformations for multiple target presentational output
formats.
While there have been many attempts to produce a Docbook
Editor that can mange
all the features and capabilities of Docbook, not many have
provided a simple
solution that virtually anybody can use.
In addition to hearing your views on the editing or workflow
environment, I
think many people would also be interested in understanding
how Madcap will
address issues such as tool-chain, portability, olinking,
bibliographies,
indexing and so forth.
The list of questions is long. Already I have one question
from a Docbook
users who is asking, "What major formats this Flare
thing can turn into
DocBook XML?"
The same person would like to learn, which versions of
DocBook you intend to
support, technologies involved in the conversion, etc...
It would be great if you could subscribe to the Docbook
mailing lists, if you
have not already done so, and perhaps partake in discussion
around Flare and
Docbook. If not, feel free to reply direct to me and I will
forward your
response to the list.
Hope you can help shed some light on the subject.
Many thanks,
--
Ask me about the Monkey.
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean inwords.co.za
+27-84-854-9408
http://www.inwords.co.za
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