Hi all,
Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for
converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
I have the exported 'MIF' and 'XML' files from Framemaker version 5. I
also have the original .fm5 files, and I have the PDFs that were
generated by Framemaker. This is some old user's documentation for a
project that I'm working on: the documents have embedded images and
equations, multi-page line-numbered code listings, an index, marginal
notes, footnotes, and cross-references between sections, tables,
equations, etc. Also tabular text, bold, italic and 'typewriter' code.
It has 'parts', 'chapters' and then two or three levels of sub-headings.
I've already written a hacky XSLT-based transformation from the
Framemaker-exported XML files direct to LyX document format using an
XSLT transformation, but I found that I just couldn't make LyX do
anything sensible with the <lyxtabular> tags that I generated - the lyx
format seemed to be so sensitive to whitespace. And I recently received
updated original Framemaker files, and I don't want to have to re-do all
the hand-tweaking that I did to make this approach work. Also,
framemaker's exported XML doesn't seem to contain *all* of the original
structure of the framemaker document.
If I'm to use existing tools, it seems that mif2xml then a homemade XSLT
to transform to HTML, then...?
I ultimately want to be able to export docbook and then generate online
documentation for GNOME and windows, as well as PDFs, as per
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo
and also Microsoft CHM format
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compressed_HTML_Help
Any suggestions?
Would I have more luck trying this with new new 1.4 version?
Cheers
JP
PS the document's I'm trying to transform are actually these:
http://ascend.cheme.cmu.edu/pdfhelp.htm
for which the source material is at
https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/documentation/trunk/mif/?rev=338
