FWD: Re: Single Sourcing in FrameMaker

[Aahz <aahz -at- pythoncraft -dot- com>]

I just realized today that posts to bit.listserv.techwr-l do not get
forwarded to the mailing list.  I'm therefore re-sending all my posts
from the past week directly to the mailing list.  My apologies to those
of you who read the newsgroup; however, it's clear that other people are
also ignorant of this problem (based on the fact that the post I'm
following up to here came from Google).

----- Forwarded message from Aahz <aahz -at- pythoncraft -dot- com> -----
> From: aahz -at- pythoncraft -dot- com (Aahz)
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.techwr-l
> Subject: Re: Single Sourcing in FrameMaker
> Date: 17 May 2002 01:30:57 -0400
> 
> [Howdy, folks, it's been a long time since I was here, but I recently
> signed my first book contract and I'm slowly catching up....]
> 
> In article <722c9565 -dot- 0204171132 -dot- 50b309e0 -at- posting -dot- google -dot- com>,
> Pete Howell <gecko_ph -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>>We have a situation where we have approx 1000 1-2 page documents that
>>will be used on a mix and match basis in 7 user manuals.
>>
>>Ideally we would like to create and maintain the 1000 docs in one
>>place and include a subset of them in into a chapter in the user
>>manual.   Is there a good way to do this?   I don't want to create
>>multiple copies of the same document in different main documents.
> 
> Use a database of XML documents.
> -- 
> Aahz (aahz -at- pythoncraft -dot- com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/
> 
> "In the end, outside of spy agencies, people are far too trusting and
> willing to help."  --Ira Winkler
> 
----- End forwarded message -----


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