Re: scaling down a document?

Subject: Re: scaling down a document?
From: David Blyth <dblyth -at- qualcomm -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:42:50 -0700 (PDT)


Hi all;

>>My first assignment is to update and then produce a smaller version of
>>a user guide that is mostly text and some screen caps.

>Otherwise, yes, you *should* reformat it if the reduction is very severe.
>Personally, I'd be tempted to do the project in XML and use one of the
>XSLT methods to produce both versions.

You can make a much smaller UG by just editing the doc and cleaning up
the screen shots. _Then_ think about reuse.

For as much as I love XML and write both Perl & XSLT, a poorly written
XML doc is.... poorly written. Reusing a trashy XML UG will just
create 2 or more trashy UGs. Hmmm.


David S. Blyth
Staff Technical Writer
QCT Division
QUALCOMM

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