vintagecoder at aol.com wrote: I can work with DCF and Bookmaster _source_ documents, not compiled binary Bookmanager, unfortunately. The comments I wrote yesterday (and posted to cctalk-request by mistake) are about the import and export filters provided with Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice etc, not about DCF/Bookmaster, which really live in another world. I'll post those comments shortly. Bookmaster is pretty great, and it converts to DITA XML in a rather straightforward way, which is no surprise since the latter is a direct descendent of the former. 1978: :note text='Warning'. Don't run with scissors. :enote. 2011: <note type='warning'> Don't run with scissors. </note> DCF (which is the IBM branch of the RUNOFF family tree, upon which Bookmaster is based) is another story. In the hands of documentation folks, it was a markup format. In the hands of engineers, it was a programming language. When engineers wrote documentation, it was a hairy mess. I've untangled some "interesting" DCF documents. Brian