RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?

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JoAnn Hackos <>
Date
2010-04-22T19:16:10+00:00
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RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
Well, our output is for DITA. We can
produce PDF, HTML, and chm.

JoAnn

 

JoAnn Hackos PhD

Co-Chair, DITA Adoption TC

Comtech Services, Inc.



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11:18 AM

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Subject: RE: [chairs] What can
Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?

 

Yes! I'd love it.
But I can already begin to see the battle lines being drawn, i.e., which one
(DITA, Docbook, OpenDocument, . . .)?

 

From: Mary
McRae [mailto:] 

Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010
9:58 AM

To: Bob Freund

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Subject: Re: [chairs] What can
Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?

 

Agreed. How would the chairs feel about mandating all specs be
created in an OASIS XML format?

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On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Bob Freund wrote:

 

How much of this review might be automated?

might be a lot if we had an xml publication format.

 

On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Dave Ings wrote:

 

+1

This would really cut down on the iterative churn that seems to frustrate the
people involved in the publication process. Great idea!

Regards, Dave Ings,

Emerging Software Standards

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<graycol.gif>Hanssens
Bart ---2010/04/22 09:02:30 AM---> Would you like us to review your
specifications prior to TC ballots so you don't need to go back a

From: Hanssens
Bart <>

To: Mary McRae <>,
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Date:
2010/04/22 09:02 AM

Subject:
RE: [chairs] What can
Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?

> Would you like us to review your
specifications prior to TC ballots so you don't need to go back and fix stuff
afterwards?

That would be very helpful indeed, especially for
new TC's / people submitting specifications for the first time...

Best regards

Bart