Re: FrameMaker possibly jumping to InDesign architecture???

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

Jeremy Griffith wrote:

>You might also want to look at the premier open-source
>(GPL) project in this area, Lyx, at:
>  http://www.lyx.org/

Version 1.2 is nearly out -- a matter of a couple of weeks,
barring some last-minute disastrous bug -- and supports
conversions in and out of DocBook as well as LaTeX. The
documentation is very good, some of the best I've seen in
an open-source project.

The interface takes some getting used to -- you don't see
margin settings, page breaks (except manually-inserted
breaks), or tab stops -- but once you get the hang of it,
the UI just disappears and lets you write. The environment
is semi-structured; not as rigid as FM+SGML but it strongly
encourages you to tag instead of override.


>For Windows users, a Lyx port with a very useful info
>file is at:
>  http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm

Someone (guess it's gonna be me) should mention that to
run LyX on Windows, you need cygwin (a free Un*x shell),
an X11 terminal program (Exceed works & is $$$, Xfree86
should also work and is free), and some version of TeX
(tetex is available as a cygwin package and there are
alternatives).

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc



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