: Re: Is the idea of single-sourced documentation dead? Is the idea of single-sourced documentation dead?

I do not know, why it should be dead. Writing and updating several sources with the same content is tedious, error-prone and will cost a lot of money.

The idea is to separate content and design. You write the content one time and you generate with different designs/formats websites, PDFs, books, eBooks, whatever.

The main approach is to store the content with its meta-information (e.g. paragraph begins here, paragraph ends there) into an XML file, the design information into a different file (style sheet) and let a computer program combining them. (You will have different style sheets for different formats.)

DocBook is a semantic markup language designed exactly for this purpose. You use it to define the content and the logical structure and generate the final product (book, webpage, ...) with different style sheets.

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: In defense of laptops (specifically netbooks) : I think a pretty decent choice would be a netbook that is underpowered enough to keep you from using it for anything but word processing, and

: Some good advices already here, so let me summarize them to give you an easy start writing emotional: DO NOT THINK! Yeah, you have read correctly. If you are a good technical writer and

: What's a good title to a presentations' table of contents? This is a professional presentation, I'm looking for a good title for the ToC page (some humor allowed). What I have so far is "What

: One Monkey and Shan are right, that there are tons of novels/movies where entities like the CIA are the bad guys. Unlikely that someone will sue you, or even can. Right of free expression

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