[thelist] one input,two outputs

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> From: "list at deuxtowers.com" <list at deuxtowers.com>
[...]
> In my company we're coming to produce a 50 pages reference book. We
> would like to publish it on an intranet and in paperback.
>
> I would like to know if there's a standard way to have one source for
> the *text* (xml/sgml file ?) and  use it to make our two ouputs (html
> and paper). Design for the book is made by a different company.
>
> So to resume : one text which can be updated one or twice in a year,
> with two designs : one for the web and one for the paper. There're
> tools, languages for that ?
[...]

well, there's the option of using something like MS Word... from
there, you can feed it into apps like Quark Xpress and FrontPage...
but since i hate FP, i likely won't be doing it...

there's also XML... you can use Adobe InDesign to import the XML into
a layout, and use XSLT to style the XML to HTML for the web...

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