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| Tools | Source formats | Ouput formats | Table | Figure | Source code readability | Pros | Cons | Notes | |
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Continue with FrameMaker | Frame, MagicDraw | move to DITA, XMI | PDF, HTML | GUI | GUI | bad | easy to edit. | ||
Move to Madcap Flare | Madcap Flare, MagicDraw | DITA, XMI | PDF, HTML, other | ||||||
| HTML authoring + MagicDraw | MagicDraw, HTML tools | XMI, HTML | HTML | ||||||
| ODF-based solution (MagicDraw) | MagicDraw, Word | Apache OpenOffice | ODF tools Achieved using MagicDraw's embedded Velocity statement approach | ODF, XMI | PDF, HTML | GUI | GUI | hard | |||
| ODF-based solution (manual) | MagicDraw, Word | Apache OpenOffice | ODF tools | ODF, XMI | GUI | GUI | hard | ||||
| Asciidoc-based solution | MagicDraw, AsciiDoctor | XMI, AsciiDoc | HTML, PDF, man, EPUB | Character base | Need other tools to make figure. Size can be attributed. | good | well designed for publishing. | requires users' technical skills. huge documents for specifications. | |
| Markdown-based solution | MagicDraw, text editor | markdown text, XMI | HTML, PDF | Character base (need extension) | Need other tools to make figure. cannot resize original figure. | good | Easy syntax. Widely adopted to many web applications. | requires users' technical skills. Not well standardised yet. poorly support for publishing | need to specify implementation platform, because there are many dialects on syntax. |
| EPub EPUB based solution | brackets | HTML, CSS | EPubEPUB(Zipped HTML) | e-publishing standard | few editor to support ePub3 |
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