Re: Moving away from MS Word?

["Char James-Tanny" <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> As was stated at the Writers UA conference last week, we have been
> promised a move to XML for 7 years now. Until we get a real tool that
> produces real XML, tech writers are not likely to embrace XML.

Sarah O'Keefe did a presentation at LavaCon 2005 on "Building a
Business Case for XML". You can see her slides at
http://www.scriptorium.com/LavaConBizCaseXML.pdf.

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