Re: Single-sourcing tool

[Borensztajn Arnon <mr_arnon -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Hi Elizabeth,

You may want to take a look at DocZone
(www.doczone.com). It seems to meet most of the
functionality you?re looking for. It?s an XML (DITA)
based solution, enabling granular content reuse and
publication to PDF, HTML etc. The solution also offers
a collaboration workflow (absent in FrameMaker) which
is quite interesting if your writing team is
expanding! DocZone also includes an intelligent
XML-based translation (localization) module, so if
you?re company markets its products worldwide you can
optimize the process of translating your documents
substantially (and reduce costs). 

DocZone is available in a hosted environment, so you
can get up and running with an advanced system quite
fast.

Let me know if it appears interesting to you. I can
also forward you more specific contact information at
DocZone.

Regards

Arnon
--- elizabeth j allen <eja -at- samurai -dot- com> wrote:

> Oh mighty techwhirlers, hear my plea!
> 
> If you worked in a small department (2 tech writers)
> within a larger
> company (16,000+ employees worldwide), and you were
> given the task of
> recommending a tool to use, what would you
> recommend? But wait, there's
> more! Here's the info you have to base your decision
> on:
> 
>      ? The current tool for technical manuals is
> LaTeX
>      ? The group of two may grow to a group of 5
> before the end of the year
>      ? The growth is driven by massive new products
> being developed
>      ? The level of documentation complexity is
> increasing exponentially
>      ? Long learning curves for tools are *not* a
> good thing (see "LaTeX")
>      ? Single-sourcing is *required*
>      ? LaTeX is used because it supports complicated
> conditionals like:
>        \ifthenelse(A + (\not B + \not
> C))(true_statement)(false_statement)
>      ? The new tools need to support complicated
> conditionals
>      ? Your manager trusts your recommendation and
> needs it today
>      ? Whatever you recommend will be the tool you
> and your coworkers use
> for these new massive doc projects. They'll blame
> you if it sucks.
> 
> I bow myself before the collective wisdom of the
> great techwhirlers!
> 
> Elizabeth "Is that complicated enough for you?"
> Allen  :)
> --
> Elizabeth J. Allen
> Technical Writer
> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not
> simpler." -- Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 
> 
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