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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Database for docbook components (i.e. section, para, etc) questions


I apologize for the long delay in answering.  I've been having trouble
with my spam filter.

Yes, I use the non-chunked HTML stylesheets to make the HTML files that
I convert to MS Word files.

Peter Desjardins

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson, Dean [mailto:dean.nelson@eecradar.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 15:12
> To: Peter Desjardins; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Database for docbook components 
> (i.e. section, para, etc) questions
> 
> Peter
> I assume that you use the non-chunked HTML stylesheets with 
> CSS to make the WORD docs?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dean Nelson   
> Enterprise Electronics Corp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Desjardins [mailto:pdesjardins@supplyscape.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:00 PM
> To: Nelson, Dean; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Database for docbook components (i.e.
> section, para, etc) questions
> 
> 
> > Also, I would like to know if anyone uses Docbook components
> > in their Word documents. We have a marketing dept. that 
> > insists on using the MS Word tools but the software 
> > developers create docs in XML/Docbook. Can the two exist so 
> > we only have to write one XML section and not both?
> 
> We deliver DocBook documents in MS Word format.  Some parts of the
> audience need the content in MS Word so we publish DocBook > HTML > MS
> Word.  It's a one-way conversion.  We do not take changes made in MS
> Word and try to push them into the DocBook source.
> 
> This is a relatively recent publishing requirement so we are still
> solving small problems.  Overall, the technique we are using 
> works well
> and the resulting MS Word files are in good shape.
> 
> Peter Desjardins
> 


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