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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiences as Authors
Hi Ian and thanks for the long reply. Sounds like a nice place to work :-) I don't use catalogs for two reasons: A) Despite the nice tutorial from sagehill.net, I can't make them work :-( B) I work with two monitors. Writing on one and previewing the document in the other, using Internet Explorer, which can transfrom documents very fast. Of course, I do make real transfromations from time to time, but I really don't want to miss the fast preview (yes I know about seperation of content and design, but . . .) 'make' sounds interesting. Anybody doing that with Ant? (I read the article from http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html, but didn't understand it). Stephan > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Castle [mailto:ian.castle@coldcomfortfarm.net] > Sent: Donnerstag, 28. November 2002 20:10 > To: Stephan Wiesner > Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiences as Authors > > > I have a "library" of common items - such as copyright > notices and so on. Each one is an entity. The documents > include the entity at the relevant point. If an entity > definition changes, then it only needs to be changed in the one place. > > Everything is in CVS. Documents tend to be modular (say one > chapter per file). > > make is used to drive the production of the document. > > Multiple authors are able to work on documents using whatever > editor they like. > > Common material is kept in a central place. > > Catalogs are used to avoid the use of file system specific > names. This means that people can work on the documents on > different machines, remotely, and even with different > operating systems. > ... -- > Ian Castle <ian.castle@coldcomfortfarm.net> >
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