Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have friend who's interested in trying out free software. Her > immediate request is for something to replace Framemaker. It seems she's > involved in the use of Framemaker to make "books" for salesmen. > > I have little more information about her application at present, but I > expect to speak to her in detail in the near future, and it would help > immensely to have a bit of familiarity with what's available. Pointers > to reviews, names of packages, etc., most welcome. > > So. what Linux tools (or, if need be, free tools that also work on > Windows) are available that have a chance of accomplishing what > Framemaker does? > > Myself, I hand-code HTML in emacs when I want to create a document. Or > write a custom C program to generate postscript code. But I think she's > enough of an end-user that she'd appreciate this method. In any case, > the salesmen wouldn't.
My initial response to this would have been that there is nothing free that comes close to FrameMaker and I was about to suggest that she simply uses the Linux port of it. After a little searching it turns out my information is woefully outdated, the Linux port has been dead since 2000 :-) Anyway, I also stumbled across this article on replacing FrameMaker with OO.o[1]. It's from 2004 so I can only hope that recent developments have made it an even better candidate. /M [1]: http://www.linux.com/articles/39406 -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus Haskell is an even 'redder' pill than Lisp or Scheme. -- PaulPotts
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