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- From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
- Subject: Re: What is BookMaster ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.131025.23572@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <mark.715406880@snark> <1992Sep2.082653.25223@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:10:25 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
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- >mark@snark.itc.gu.edu.au (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 ?
- >:
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- >It's an IBM product. It seems that most of their machines have Bookmaster
- >readers (AIX etc) but not for OS/2.
-
- I think there's a product called BookReader for OS/2 which does this.
- It may be part of the overall product line BookManager, and it may be a
- mainframe server to an OS/2 client. I'm only aware that our systems
- staff got their first OS/2 machine for the main purpose of providing
- them access to BookMaster soft-documentation through BookReader.
-
- BTW as far as I'm concerned, for producing software and other technical
- documentation, BookMaster can't be beat. It has large numbes of
- features directed at such documents:
- Paragraphs & Headings
- Order, unordered, simple lists (nested lists as well)
- Text that isn't paragraphs ("Just plain lines", Computer input & output)
- Figures
- Cross references & footnotes
- Hilighting, citing, quoting, and noting
- Overall document structure (prolog, front matter, title pages, appendices)
- Tables (multi-page & rotated)
- Directories (like phone books)
- Definitions (like dictionaries)
- Scaling
- Artwork (space, flowing text around, imbedding postscript)
- Special lists (glosaries, paramter lists, messages and codes)
- Mathematical formulas
- Illustrating display screens and interactive dialogs
- Indexes
- Cover, edition notices, copyright notices, table of contents
- Appendix and chapter lettering/numbering
- Running headers and footers
- Absolute text layout by grid
- Developing programming language refernece manuals
- Programming syntax (railroad diagrams for your language!)
- Schedules
- Letters
- Maintenance analysis procedures
- Parts catalog lists
- Revision control, slugs
- Symbols
-
- This is just a quick list of things in the Bookmaster table of contents.
- Also since, BM is on top of Script (a detailed runoff language) you can
- re-program things you don't like. Our consulting & tech services staff
- maintains a thesis/dissertain package using DCF (bookmaster's less
- advanced cousin).
-
- Mike Percy | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu | I don't know about
- Sr. Systems Analyst | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
- Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET | is really...bossy.
- Clemson University | (803) 656-3780 | (Laurie Anderson)
-