framers-request (09/30/90)
We are considering switching our textprocessing and desktop publishing to our workstations (Risc/Ultrix). We want to use the DECwrite documentation tool. The functionality of DECwrite seems sufficient for our purposes. However, we have lots of existing documentation, that must be imported in the new tool. Fortunately, all documents adhere to some very keen standards that make it possible to exchange the contents of the documents between several text processing tools. But until now, I haven't found a way to import our documents into DECwrite. Yes, I can import them as plain text, but that would need extensive (manual) postprocessing. What I need is a way to tell DECwrite that it must apply specific styles to the paragraphs while loading the document. (The load document is generated automatically and I can control what is generated, and how.) I think this can be done with a suitable CDA converter, but I don't have any experience with writing one. Can FrameMaker do this? This could be a reason to choose FrameMaker instead of DECwrite. Any help is appreciated. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------
jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (10/05/90)
Look at the CDA converter/converter libraries. They are a seperate utility from DECwrite, but convert to and from lots of formats... - Jim