RE: [docbook-apps] anyone have a windows-based publishing infrastructure?

[Gisbert Amm <gia@webde-ag.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Lawrence [mailto:scribe@matrixplus.com]
> 
> There are several reasons to produce a Word document that won't
> "round-trip."
> 
> 1) Other departments can use pieces of the documentation for their own
> purposes.  For example, the training group can cut-and-paste 
> sections of
> the documentation into training materials.  (It is out of the question
> for those departments to learn to use XML tools.)
> 
> 2) It provides a way that offsite developers can use Word's commenting
> and revision capabilities.  This means that we can email a draft (in
> Word), a developer can comment on it, and then email it back.  
> 
Sorry, you're very right. So I correct myself (less arrogant): I've found it
useless fo me in my current situation - because there is no way back.

Regards,
Gisbert Amm