Re: Publication templates

[Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi Norm,

  The DocBook templates for Standard Track Work Products live at http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/DocBook/spec-0.5/ and were prepared by Ken Holman with help from several members of various TCs who are using DocBook as their authoring platform. The package includes everything needed. Any questions about its use should be directed to Ken with the understanding that he's a volunteer and may not be able to respond immediately.

  The DITA TC has been working on a similar environment but it is not yet ready/packaged and therefore not yet made available to a wider audience.

Best regards,

Mary 





On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Norman Walsh wrote:

> Hi Mary,
> 
> In preparation for publications in the new year, I've been looking
> over the most-recent process document again. The first thing that
> strikes me is probably not new but I think I've lost track of the
> current state of affairs.
> 
> Section 2.18 says, in part:
> 
>  All document files must be written using the OASIS document
>  authoring templates, which shall be maintained and made available by
>  the TC Administrator.
> 
> Where can I find the most recent templates?
> 
> What, for that matter, constitutes a template? Do you have a
> publication specification that describes the layout necessary in PDF
> and/or HTML formats that I generate from my "editable format"? Where
> can I find those publication specifications?
> 
> If you're not providing a pub spec, are you instead simply requesting
> specific markup in DocBook and/or DITA, for example, that your
> publication system will be able to use to produce the output format
> that is desired? (Since I doubt OASIS has the resources to manage the
> publication process, I'm assuming you've got a pubspec but, hey, if
> you wanted to take over the formatting process ... :-)
> 
> If you don't yet have a publication spec ready, when might one be
> available? It occurs to me as I write this that it might be very nice
> if the pubspec was itself an OASIS Standard. That would assure that it
> got adequate review by all of the members that find themselves in the
> position of having to conform to it. Just a thought...
> 
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
> 
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