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My bad. I was thinking of Author/Editor, not XMetal,
and SoftQuad prior to the buyouts.
The ArborText products had better FOSI support when
I was part of a production group doing IETM work. A
major issue that remains, I am told, is that the
specifications still require both paper and electronic
output. Arbotext was better at that but it was a
complicated system to set up and was a
production system, not for lone wolves.
len
From: Ari Nordstrom [mailto:mayfair@tiscali.se]
On Friday 09 April 2004 22:58, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> That's not to say that all editors have to
> support the rigors of technical writing.
> But some do. That is likely why Arbortext
> is still in business while SoftQuad isn't.
Oh, SoftQuad's still in business. Sort of. They're owned by Blast Radius
these
days, and XMetaL's alive and well. My personal opinion (as a technical
writer
and as an XML developer) is that XMetaL is a far better product than
Arbortext Epic, but I'm aware that Epic has its supporters as well.
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