NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/28953

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From: [e-mail] (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: What is BookMaster ?
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:00:03 GMT
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In article <mark.715406880@snark> [e-mail] (Mark Hessling) writes:

>I have seen references to BookMaster in a couple of documents. What is
>it ? Is it a commercial IBM product or a utility ?

It's a commercial IBM product, although I believe only for large IBM systems.
Basically, it is a product layered on top of "Script", IBM's text formatting
system.  A large oversimplication is that Script provides a nuts and bolts
formatting system, while Bookmaster layers a structured document system on
top of Script, hiding the complexity.

This is the same sort of thing with TeX and LaTeX, troff and its macro
libraries, and other formatting systems.  (And is opposite to the approach
taken by Scribe and it's ilk (ie: Borland's Sprint) which starts as a high
level procedural formatter, but allows access to the nuts and bolts through
environment attributes).

Bookmaster is actually quite powerful.  Most (or all) of IBMs documentation is
now produced with it - including the books that came with OS/2, or the ones
(redbooks, technical library, etc..) that can be ordered.

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-- David
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