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Subject:Re: SGML (short) From:Tim Altom <taltom -at- IQUEST -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:20:00 EST
You've struck the lost chord, Chet. Even creating up-front processes for
SGML, regardless of future savings, are usually considered too costly.
Clients listen eagerly to us until the price pops up, then they rapidly lose
interest. We've even offered to do cost analysis to justify going to a
database style, only to be rebuffed.
>Certainly better style standards were called for in this case. But style
>standards must be applied and few companies go back and redo the existing
>manuals because the process is too costly.
