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RE: [docbook-apps] anyone have a windows-based publishing infrastructure?
- From: Gisbert Amm <gia at webde-ag dot de>
- To: 'Bill Lawrence' <scribe at matrixplus dot com>, 'docbook apps list' <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:17:33 +0200
- Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] anyone have a windows-based publishing infrastructure?
> -----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
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