- From: AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:30:00 +0200
- To: "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Techpubs/techdoc producers use very efficient composition tools with high
quality typesetting.
Outputting EPUBs would be simple for them from their XML based content.
Companies as IBM has moved their techdocs to EPUB. Be prepared to see
other...
Liam concern on how to involve them (or their composition system
suppliers) should be high priority, IMHO.
Luc
Le 15/06/2016 15:04, « Cramer, Dave » <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com> a écrit :
>On 6/15/16, 3:19 AM, "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org> wrote:
>
>>We've not really targeted techpubs/techdoc teams for invovlement - by
>>this I'm referring to internal documentation teams typically in larger
>>engineering firms (makers of telephone exchanges, cars, 'planes,
>>semiconductors, martini mixers and so forth, as well as government
>>publications teams) - who are currently often using either custom
>>("bespoke") systems or XSL-FO setups. It's the original market for SGML
>>and XML systems of course.
>
>On the Monday DPUB call, one of the things that came up was doing a formal
>gap analysis for CSS vs XSL-FO.
>
>That would be fun :)
>
>Dave
>
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