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Subject:Re: Powerpoint is overkill for manuals! From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:18:49 -0800
At 10:17 AM 1/28/99 -0500, Mark Baker wrote:
>Tim Altom wrote
>
>>I can't think of
>>anything less suited for modern manual production, unless it's Access,
>
>I can't think of anything in the Office suite that is more suitable to
>modern manual production than Access. We use Access to do media neutral
>authoring and then do simultaneous delivery to PostScript, PDF, WinHelp, and
>HTML. Presentation in each media is appropriate to that media. The entire
>production process for all media takes about 4 hours.
>
>>although even Access isn't a dead end; I can use it to hold tagged text, at
>>least.
>
>Holding tagged text is what we use it for, but it is holding tagged text in
>a highly structured format that is the key. I would call all media-bound
>authoring techniques dead ends.
>
Let me get this straight - you've used Access to reinvent SGML?
--Wayne
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