atw: Re: XML software for Word-like formatting

 

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> Sent: Friday, 26 June 2009 9:33 PM
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> It's a bit of a grand experiment why I'm moving to XML for 
> editing. I've just finished a job which involved revising the 
> edits of several authors for a book. Using the one MS Word 
> document, this meant editing the whole document, then I'd put 
> it up on a FTP site so that each author could download and 
> revise their own chapter, then I'd revise the whole document 
> again for consistency, then the authors would come up with 
> ideas for images in the book (or revise figures), then I'd 
> have to revise the captions and list of figures, then put it 
> on the FTP site again....

? how come your not using the master document feature of MS word?

"A master document (master document: A "container" for a set of separate
files (or subdocuments). You can use a master document to set up and manage
a multipart document, such as a book with several chapters.) contains links
(link: Used to insert a copy of information created in one program into a
Microsoft Word document while maintaining a connection between the two
files. When the information changes in the source file, the changes are
reflected in the destination document.) to a set of related subdocuments.
Use a master document to organize and maintain a long document by dividing
it into smaller, more manageable subdocuments. In a workgroup, store a
master document on a network to share ownership of a document by dividing it
into individual subdocuments."

I have used it and found no problems if one is *careful* in its use.


> Several times the authors asked for the whole document to be 
> split up into chapters so they wouldn't have to spend time 
> downloading the whole lot when they only needed their own 
> chapter.

Not an issue with master document usage.

Chris.



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