The publication module may be a key difference. The current tools
manage the content of the publication through an interface and
proprietary XML format. So their graphical interface is used to
organize the content and then publish it. This is easy for the
writers to use, but it doesn't allow me to introduce any processing
of my own. Anything I add has to be done after the fact.
..dan
At 01:40 PM 5/26/2012, you wrote:
Hi Dan,
I am working in a similar environment, except we use 2 different
sets of stylesheets, but have many imported/included stylesheets
shared across the IETM and PDF. Like you, we have a S1000D input to
publish a MIL-STD-40051 output. As you know the 40051 output covers
a number of different Technical Manuals (PDF output). We have over
15 Publication Modules which share over 1000 data modules. We use a
"pipeline" approach like you do. We have been doing this for 2 years
with great success. Managing 2 sets of stylesheets for 2 completely
different outputs is manageable. In fact, I prefer it this way. But
trying to great a single set of stylesheets to output 2 completely
different outputs (IETM or PDF) would be a nightmare to manage (IMO).
Phil
On May 26, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Dan Vint wrote:
> I have at least 3 environments that I need to keep consistent.
> 1) Arbortext editing environment
> 2) IETM output as HTML
> 3) 3rd party application that merges the data modules together
into one XML file that is then processed to make the PDF.
Originally designed to be a mil-spec manual output but typically
now just used for review copies where the requirement is to make it
more like the IETM output.
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