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According to one Web site I saw: "Content Reuse is the application of
single-sourcing in documents. When you create documentation that has the
same content or similar content in several instances, you can choose to
create that content in each instance or to re-use content that exists
outside of the current document."
In other words, your single-sourced documents share about 40% of shared
content, and the other 60% is instance-specific?
Dan Goldstein
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Brierley [mailto:seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:44 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Single-sourcing, who's doing it?
Me, since about 1999 using unstructured FrameMaker,
WebWorks Publisher Pro/2003 from Quadralay, and no
XML. Delivery has varied, but typically my
deliverables differ in both content and formatting,
and press-ready PDF, online PDF, and context-sensitive
CHM are what I ship. The total amount of reuse depends
on projects, but I have one project where reuse is
probably around 40% for all three deliverables.
Cheers,
Sean
--- Bill Lawrence <scribe -at- matrixplus -dot- com> wrote:
>
> So, out of curiosity, how many folks on the list are
> doing single-source
> documentation using XML or any other technology?
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