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Subject:RE: The best solution...? From:Chris Gooch <chris -dot- gooch -at- lightworkdesign -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:42:32 -0000
Valarie wrote:
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Hi there! I work at a large state university, and help prepare documents
for our users (the 25,000 or so students who range from freshmen to
post-graduate and professional).
....
We've been told to switch to a mostly online format by
Summer 2003.
....
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Getting rid of TeX might have been a mistake. Free
cross platform software that can produce good looking
print, PDF or html by processing plain text files
that can be stored in a database, seperation of
style/look-and-feel from content, easy to set
up scripts to manage production and upload to
web sites... all the good things that the xml
community are rabbiting on about now, as though
they invented it, and ideal for a university
I would have thought (it's free! it's supported!)
Anyway I'm swimming against the tide I expect, so
my other advice would be to check out xml and
DocBook. If you're serious about setting up a
knowledge base you should read up on the subject
at any rate.
cheers,
Chris,
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