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Re: length of specifications

From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:19:18 -0500
To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
Cc: Jim Melton <jim.melton@acm.org>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, chairs@w3.org, public-qt-comments@w3.org, w3c-query-editors@w3.org
Message-Id: <1092406747.23254.322.camel@seabright>
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 08:19, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> Are these decisions that should be made on a spec-by-spec basis, or are 
> the requirements for formats used to publish a spec established? I don't 
> think pubrules requires this many formats.

Hi Jonathan,

Pubrules does not require anything beyond one normative html/xhtml
version. After that, there are just recommendations for making
life easier for groups of readers, some of which are discussed in the
Manual of Style. 

> A zipped version of our specs makes a lot of sense, and is little 
> effort. If specs should be published in a variety of formats, perhaps 
> there should be stylesheets to generate all required formats for XML Spec.

They probably exist. But again, multiple formats are not required.

 _ Ian

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