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- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>, ashvil@i3connect.net
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:04:42 -0500
The term you may be looking for is page integrity. This
was a requirement for eighties era print systems that
relied on page breaks to ensure the index systems worked
with change pages. Essentially, because of the process
of layout, indexes were late bound, that is, after all of
the edits were done and tied to the page number. This
wasn't realistic for digital systems with just-in-time
formatting to enable maximum reuse.
This issue was one of the deadliest snakes of the
CALS era in which 28001 and FOSI dominated the ROA
citations and specs like 87269 and the view package
drafts could barely get cited at all. The 28001
customer wanted page fidelity (necessary for legal
documents), the vendors only wanted to contract for
page integrity, and the IETM vendors did not want
to contract for either. It was the core schism of
SGML followed quickly by "Thou Shalt Not Program
with PointyBrackets".
"Orangutangs are sceptical of changes in their cages." Simon
AKA, the rice bowl dilemma.
Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram
Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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