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My bad. I was thinking of Author/Editor, not XMetal, and SoftQuad prior to the buyouts. The ArborText products had better FOSI support when I was part of a production group doing IETM work. A major issue that remains, I am told, is that the specifications still require both paper and electronic output. Arbotext was better at that but it was a complicated system to set up and was a production system, not for lone wolves. len From: Ari Nordstrom [mailto:mayfair@t...] On Friday 09 April 2004 22:58, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > That's not to say that all editors have to > support the rigors of technical writing. > But some do. That is likely why Arbortext > is still in business while SoftQuad isn't. Oh, SoftQuad's still in business. Sort of. They're owned by Blast Radius these days, and XMetaL's alive and well. My personal opinion (as a technical writer and as an XML developer) is that XMetaL is a far better product than Arbortext Epic, but I'm aware that Epic has its supporters as well.
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