... Please search the docbook list archives for two or three very useful posts -- from Mike (if memory serves) and, particularly, from Bob Stayton. In sum, I...
ed nixon
ed.nixon@...
Sep 1, 2002 1:59 pm
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Perhaps we are still to some extent victims of the newness of structured authoring and its concomitant requirements for successful use. In technical writing, I...
emacs+psgml runs on MacOS too. I used to work as a technical writer some years ago, at a time when Ventura 4.something was the best DTP tool on PCs. We used to...
XSLT Performance seminar with Michael Kay, author of Saxon! organised by XML BeLux sponsored by Software AG What to expect from this seminar? If you have any...
... Ahhhh...a skeptic. <smile> The form:meaning composite nature of language is rather well established starting with Sauserre approx. 100 years ago. The fact...
Mike Sangrey
msangrey@...
Sep 2, 2002 5:43 pm
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$Id: guidelines.txt,v 1.9 2002/07/02 09:34:10 smith Exp $ xml-doc list guidelines ... These guidelines are sent as a Welcome message to new xml-doc subscribers...
xml-doc@yahoogroups.com
Sep 3, 2002 5:34 am
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David wrote: <snip>... I submit that any documentation group would vastly improve the quality of the output if each writer were only charged with creating or...
... I'm not qualified to argue the finer details of the premise as a philosophical issue. Not that I wouldn't be happy to over a pint in some quiet pub. :-) As...
... We have also had a lot of success with this. Writers work within a custom-developed authoring system, that gives them only the option of: * paragraph style...
Given time, I can argue the philosophical components of this debate as long as anyone wants. The practical issue at hand is does XML help you reuse content so...
... established ... I'm there - your first pint is on me. :-) ... I agree -- again, perhaps many people are blurring the distinction between form and format. I...
This is very well said, and at least for me, wraps up most of my semi-formed thoughts on the matter: ... Reuse, at this level *depends* on some very detailed...
sara.mitchell@...
Sep 4, 2002 6:45 pm
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... <snip> ... Tell ya what, I'll give ya two. <smile> And the reason I'm doing this is to help show the importance of context to the correct interpretation of...
Mike Sangrey
msangrey@...
Sep 4, 2002 8:25 pm
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... I'd argue that it was a case of poor information design. After all, what page size are we talking about? US letter? A4? How do you display that page spread...
... I dunno, but to the extent that they're thinking of the semantic unit, I'll warrant that they're writing will be improved :-) ... We're wandering into the...
I was somehow expecting an example that showed that a specific presentation was important. (probably my error ...) Instead, the two run-on paragraphs in the...
Stan Devitt
jsdevitt@...
Sep 5, 2002 8:52 pm
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As part of this intriguing discussion regarding form and content, and then on into reuse, Mike Sangrey made some interesting observations, concluding with this...
Let's see if I understand this. One argument seems to be that form and content are to some extent inextricably bound to each other, while the other is that...
I have to confess to being somewhat lost in the form/content abstractions. I have a practical example, though. Perhaps some of the intellectual tools discussed...
... That the heading belongs with the table is conceivably a semantic rather than presentational issue. (Though certainly one expects semantics to influence...
"There is no way to specify that relationship, however. Nor is automatically understood by my NS 4.77 browser. And printing the way it does, the semantic ...
... Wow. Talk about an unfriendly reception. As it happens, I looked at Mozilla two years ago, now. I didn't much like the interface I saw, at the time. If you...
Eric et.al., Of course I apologize if you were offended. However, I know of no major Web development firm who worries much about supporting browser technology...
Hi all: Below is info on upcoming Tri-XML meeting -- Thursday, September 12th -- as well as info on the October meeting. Additional details are on the Tri-XML...
David, So are you supporting development aimed at NS 4.78 but not 4.77? Since Mozilla has officially been out only a short time, I wouldn't expect support for...
Nancy (Paisner) Harri...
nancyh@...
Sep 9, 2002 7:39 pm
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... Is there a significant difference? My understanding is that new releases of 4.x versions of Netscape are bug-fixes to address security issues and are...
ed nixon
ed.nixon@...
Sep 9, 2002 9:00 pm
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It may well be that companies *should* be moving towards NS 7, but as a company developing enterprise software for companies much bigger than we are, we have...
Nancy (Paisner) Harri...
nancyh@...
Sep 9, 2002 9:40 pm
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Nancy, ... Well, it depends on what you consider as a defect. For some, even Mozilla 9.2.x has less deffects that N4.x, as it just wont process todays web...
I suppose it's naive to see the availability of NS7 as an opportunity. Presumably its benefits could be made to be seen as obvious: standards compliance,...
