I move in these military/defense spec circles rather a lot, and yeah, ASD has come light years when it comes to ASD-100 (STE) availability. Cruise this thread and you'll see quite a few of the horror stories users have had just getting their hands on a printed copy of the specification. Why, you might ask, why in the dickens was this arrangement so resilient? Whelp, it goes back to the governance of these specs, and the ugly truth is that if the national military sits out the technical steering, and then the big OEMs sit out the technical steering, the only ones left are the existing software vendors. So that probably tells you all you need to know about how that goes.
I'd also like to give a shout out to TechScribe.uk, who sells a LanguageTool package to use STE as a LanguageTool grammar and language set. RedPen.CC also has some STE rules you can plug into the linter. RedPen and LanguageTool, you can integrate those with Visual Studio Code or another standard text editor. Of course, if you're tasked with STE, then you probably also have the budget to go to the Big Boys, Etteplan (formerly Tedopres) and those fellas, who are in the spec governance up to their elbows. There's a reason licenses for aerospace techpubs can easily clear 50k per seat per year - and the reason is crap like that.
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I move in these military/defense spec circles rather a lot, and yeah, ASD has come light years when it comes to ASD-100 (STE) availability. Cruise this thread and you'll see quite a few of the horror stories users have had just getting their hands on a printed copy of the specification. Why, you might ask, why in the dickens was this arrangement so resilient? Whelp, it goes back to the governance of these specs, and the ugly truth is that if the national military sits out the technical steering, and then the big OEMs sit out the technical steering, the only ones left are the existing software vendors. So that probably tells you all you need to know about how that goes.
I'd also like to give a shout out to TechScribe.uk, who sells a LanguageTool package to use STE as a LanguageTool grammar and language set. RedPen.CC also has some STE rules you can plug into the linter. RedPen and LanguageTool, you can integrate those with Visual Studio Code or another standard text editor. Of course, if you're tasked with STE, then you probably also have the budget to go to the Big Boys, Etteplan (formerly Tedopres) and those fellas, who are in the spec governance up to their elbows. There's a reason licenses for aerospace techpubs can easily clear 50k per seat per year - and the reason is crap like that.