Docbook bookfile

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Fri Nov 21 08:54:07 PST 2014


I couldn't find any documentation of DocBook support before FM12. Not
that there's much in FM12's docs, either.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Scott Prentice <sp14 at leximation.com> wrote:
> FM has provided support for docbook since 7.2. It's been weak and incomplete
> (as it still is), but it's been there. If you poke around in the structure
> applications, you'll see an xdocbook app.
>
> Wim .. in order to use docbook effectively in FM, you'll need to do a bit of
> development work, both structure app development but also likely some FDK
> work. You may be better off trying to develop a docbook specialization of
> DITA .. but that will have it's own special problems!
>
> ...scott
>
> On 11/21/14 8:37 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>
> I doubt there are many FrameMaker DocBook users, since support was
> just added in FM12. In structured mode it should not convert XML to
> .fm.
>
> If you don't have FM12, I suggest downloading an eval copy.
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp <wim at idtp.eu>
> wrote:
>
> Now when I open a docbook book file in FM, FM converts it directly to a FM
> book. All XML files are converted to fm files. That’s not what I want.
>
>
>
>
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