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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

82.0. "Getting onto a disk" by CURIE::HARTSHORN () Mon Feb 13 1989 13:30

Who handles/determines the schedule for putting a product on a disk?
Is it a function of a product manager getting together with SQM and
hashing out a date?  
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82.1VAXUUM::UTTMon Feb 13 1989 19:232
    Yes, it is a product manager function. Marian Weisenfeld, product
    manager for online documentation, works with SQM.
82.2Getting on the Online Doc Library Disk?CASEY::BURACKNot Fade AwayTue May 09 1989 14:5420
    Hi,
    
    My product is looking to get on the July CONDIST.... If the software
    goes on the CDROM does that mean that the documentation must also
    go on the Online Documentation Library disk in the Bookreader format.
    
    I realize that SQM requires the .TXT version of the Cover Letter
    and the Install Guide for the Software disk. 
    
    What can the customer do with this .TXT file?

    Is this .TXT file supposed to be formatted? There are known problems
    with the .line, .term, and .mail destinations that aren't going to
    be fixed in DOCUMENT Version 1.2.


    
    Thanks,
    
    Ruth-Ellen    
82.3There is a fix . . . MARVIN::SILVERMANWed May 10 1989 05:0913
   >There are known problems with the .line, .term, and .mail
   >destinations that aren't going to be fixed in DOCUMENT Version 1.2.

   There is a patch available to fix the main formatting problems with
   line, term and mail on V1.1. We have it on our system, and the line
   spacing is now OK (this was the worst problem before).

   The information about this patch is somewhere in the DOCUMENT notes
   file. 


   Marge
82.4Original questions ....CASEY::BURACKNot Fade AwayWed May 10 1989 16:4621
     Thanks for the pointer to that patch. I will try it and see if
    it helps. There is also a problem with the way that .LINE and .TERM
    handle the translation of the <emphasis> tag. I will bring that
    to  the DOCUEMENT notesfile.
    
    Back to my original intent of this note:
    
    My product is looking to get on the July CONDIST.... If the software
    goes on the CDROM does that mean that the documentation must also
    go on the Online Documentation Library disk in the Bookreader format.
    
    I realize that SQM requires the .TXT version of the Cover Letter
    and the Install Guide for the Software disk. 
    
    What can the customer do with this .TXT file? Is this .TXT file 
    supposed to be formatted?

    Thanks
    
    Ruth-Ellen
82.5TXT files are for CONDIST only.BLUMON::WEISENFELDFri May 12 1989 16:0527
    Hi Ruth-Ellen,
    
    RE: Is it required that the documentation set be shipped on line in
        order for the software to get onto CONDIST?
    
        No.  The documentation requirements for CONDIST are simply that
        a cover letter and installation guide be provided in TXT or LINE
        format.  We highly recommend, however, that the documentation be
        provided on line as soon as possible because our customers are
        begging for more online documentation for the products they use
        off CONDIST.
    
    RE: What do customers do with the TXT files for the cover letter and
        installation guide on CONDIST?
    
        Customers print them.  SQM requires these files so that a customer
        who obtains a software kit and a product license can install the
        software product immediately (sometimes updates are urgently needed
        apply bug fixes, etc.), regardless of whether the rest of the
        documentation is available.  These files are not used with the
        Bookreader and are not included on the Online Documentation Library
        compact disc.
    
    So, here's hoping we see your documentation on line soon!
    
    Cheers,
    Marian
82.6Online gets good reviewsCASEY::BURACKNot Fade AwayTue May 23 1989 14:3414
    Hi,
    
    Thanks for the answers. I just got back from the MUMPS User's Group
    meeting in Seattle. I showed the Bookreader and the CDrom with the
    Online Documentation. Many of the MUMPS users had never seen DECwindows
    before and it all got a good reaction (except of course for the prices
    of the hardware). I had people interested in Document. However,
    a lot of MUMPS users use WYSIWYG word processors and were asking
    about DECwrite.
    
    The VAX DSM documentation will go on the CONDIST in July. Perhaps
    it will make the Online disc when we do the next major release.
    
    Ruth-Ellen