atw: Re: Multi-purpose documents
- From: "Steve Hudson" <adslyy5g@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:08:01 +1100
I wrote a small free tool for the tech whirlers site that provides for
editioning in Word by using highlights to represent each edition.
-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Silcock
I'd be interested to hear from people who've had experience in creating
multi-purpose documents - that is, documents in which a single receptacle of
content is used to produce a variety of different outputs for different
audiences.
I'm in the process of planning a user guide for in-house software, but in
discussing the requirements I realise that what's really needed is a suite
of documents. There'll be a number of different classes of users, each of
which will have control over different set of functions, so ideally each
class needs its own version of the manual, containing just material relevant
to the functions its members work with. Moreover, information in the
manual(s) will be used (but not by me) to create trainings and some of the
manuals are required in A5 format while others in A4.
This looks like a typical scenario for XML, which I understand from a
theoretical point of view but haven't ever applied. I've been investigating
the XML capabilities of Word and it looks as if they should be usable. But
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's actually tried it out.
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