Interleaf

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Founded in 1981, Interleaf was a company that produced a technical publishing software product with the same name. It was a competitor of the Adobe FrameMaker product. Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000.

The Interleaf publishing system was notable for being one of several software packages (along with AutoCAD) that was keeping the use of the Lisp programming language alive in commercial software in the late 1990s.

After acquisition Interleaf changed its name to Quicksilver.

According to Broadvision product description, BroadVision QuickSilver enables you to create and publish lengthy, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF and Postscript) and automates publishing of personalized content to BroadVision Portal. Assemble publications from a variety of text, graphic and database sources, including Microsoft Word, AutoCad, Microsoft Excel, and Oracle. Includes a complete XML authoring environment.

Automatically assembles documents from a variety of sources including Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and FrameMaker.
Supports complex authoring with reusable content and cascading changes, attribute tagging and conditional views, and automatic TOCs and indices.
Streamlines publishing to the BroadVision portal environment with automatic multi-file publishing, intra and inter-file links, and by leveraging qualifiers, categories and attributes in the portal.