[Info-vax] DEC/TTI Document

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-01-02 16:05:
> On 2015-01-02 14:37:57 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>
>> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-01-02 15:17:
>>>
>>> That's DEC (now TTI) Document.  AFAIK, there's no hobbyist version of that.
>>
>> But you can get a descent discount if you ask. I did at least, but that
>> was, hm, gosh, must have been something like 10 years ago...
>
> Or porting the documents to different tools,...

Yepp, did that 8 years ago... :-)
Used MS Word instead.

> as AFAIK there's no path
> forward for existing DEC / TTI Document and SDML files.
>
> Probably time to look around again, and see if there's a reasonable
> replacement for a text-based formatting tool, and that I can migrate into.

Hm, the Python port for VMS has a builtin tool for creating and
writing .DOCX files directly. So technicaly it should be possible
to write a tool to read SDML and write DOCX files automaticly.

https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx



> DocBook and the roffs were seemingly the available options, back when I
> last looked.  Those tools worked, but weren't as easy to install or use or
> target as I'd hoped.   It's likely that things here have improved since
> that last looked, though.  The new stuff I'm working with and writing
> already uses other documentation tools, and the last (big) hunk of SDML
> around is the old FAQ.
>
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