Re: [docbook-apps] Formation of a new DocBook SubCommittee forProfessional Publishing

["GARY Hoffman" <GHOFF@eslaw.com>]

Scott:

 

This is an excellent idea. May I suggest, however, that legal publications not be limited to books. You should also include legal memoranda, law reviews, trial briefs and appellate briefs (recognizing, of course, that the required form of legal briefs varies from one jurisdiction to another).

 

Thank you,

 

 

 

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>>> Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com> 1/22/2007 6:29:16 PM >>>

Fellow DocBook enthusiasts,

The DocBook Technical Committee is amenable to the idea of sanctioning
certain customizations of DocBook without changing core DocBook.

It has been suggested that subcommittees could be formed for the purpose
of creating official customization layers to support the needs of
various domains. These customizations will officially be "DocBook
variants", but will also drive requirements back to core DocBook.

I would like to propose the formation of a DocBook SubCommittee for
Professional Publishing.

The charter for this SC may include support for:
- Supporting periodicals as regularly published
  technical notes or journals.
- Professional book publishing (such as business, legal, medical, etc)
- Textbooks

The charter will not include support (initially) for:
- magazine and layout-intensive publishing

Please respond if you are interested in participating. If there is
enough interest, and the TC approves the formation of the subcommittee,
then the initial tasks will be to create a statement of work, and submit
it to the TC for approval.

A first priority will be to identify which kinds of professional
publishing applications are most amenable to DocBook, and where exchange
and interoperability are most needed in professional publishing.

Of course, all participants need to be OASIS members.

Thanks and best regards,

Scott Hudson
Flatirons Solutions
OASIS DocBook TC