Hi Darrel,
Actually, this is an old problem, and not so unusual at all, if I understand
it correctly. A lot of legal material relies on fixed page boundaries for
ongoing publishing, and what is often called looseleaf updates where only
the changed pages are updated, printed, and redistributed.
Adam Fields wrote:
Abstraction is your friend here.
Surely abstraction is a friend of a friend?
:)
From a development point-of-view, I'd go with XML too. Group by page
and make each paragraph a separate child of that page.
You then display this in any number of ways.
--
drew mclellan
Hi Austin,
I do not know the context of your restriction so my answer may be off
target. Anyway I would like to provide my opinion, but before let me
make you a question?
The easy solution is to just publish them as PDFs, but that just
doesn't
seem to be the elegant solution in my mind.
Can I
Question: how are the documents edited? Word? Framemaker?
Before embarking on a complex XML journey, I would investigate the native
abilities of the editing software. Most decent word processors have
capabilities for flexible references (with page #s that float with the
target text). Next,
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0600, Austin, Darrel wrote:
Setting aside the question of whether page citations themselves are an
outmoded mechanism,
These are legal documents, used by lawyers and judges in and outside of the
courtroom. During a court case, it is critical that
Darrel Austin wrote:
Setting aside the question of whether page citations
themselves are an outmoded mechanism,
These are legal documents, used by lawyers and judges in and
outside of the courtroom. During a court case, it is critical
that someone can quickly cite a passage as
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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:27:00AM -0600, Austin, Darrel wrote:
One bit of content we are planning
It sounds like to just need to break your content up into passage
blocks, then maintain a list of which blocks go in which order on
which pages. PDF-ing the pages doesn't seem like it will gain you much
here, since you're not necessarily interested in keeping a physical
representation of the
