Some of you have said you are experienced technical writers. If anyone has experience with techniques for reusing common material, preferably using OOo's features (variables; conditional text, paragraphs, sections; etc.), please help me set up some methods and files and write the instructions for using them.
We want to develop methods that can be used by contributors without detailed knowledge of how they work. TJ, Andrew, or other macro gurus should be able to set up the necessary post-processing once we've worked out what we're doing. Reusing material (such as PDF export) between books has been part of the plan for OOo, and on my personal priority list, for some time -- but it is now even more important and urgent for providing files that can most easily be reused for other flavors of OOo such as LibreOffice. Please no disgressions into how much better FrameMaker or some other tool is at doing this. Any tool that costs money is out, and any tool that isn't easily comprehended by the majority of volunteers is out (so no DocBook). OOo/LO is what we've got, and we should be using our own product anyway. Jean -- Jean Hollis Weber Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
