Single-sourcing tool

John Posada jposada01 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 5 07:48:13 MST 2007


You know the saying...

Pick two of the following three:
cheep, fast. good

Because of the complex conditional requirements, you are looking at
something like XML to take advantage of XSLT rule enforcement.
Anything less will bring less functionality with it.

FM has the most complete conditional functionality, but it doesn't
handle something like \ifthenelse(A + (\not B + \not >
C))(true_statement)(false_statement) very well.

I don't know if applications such as AuthorIt do either.

> • Long learning curves for tools are *not* a good thing (see
> "LaTeX")
> 

You're out of luck on this part, and BTW...ANY conversion from LaTeX
is goiung to be an absolute bear.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."



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