Re: Write once layout everwhere (?)

[Duncan Hothersall <dh@capdm.com>]

Hi Pepe,

If you want your content to remain maintainable and manageable for a 
long period (e.g. decades), if you can afford it, and if you have a 
sufficiently large amount of content, then I strongly recommend 
investing the time and effort in an XML-based solution.

My experience is in large scale educational/commercial applications, in 
which managing content in XML and using tools like ConTeXt to create 
beautiful print output, and alternate tools to create web output from 
the same source, is a very good solution. I can certainly let you know 
the technology we use, but some of it is commercial and expensive, and 
other bits are just complicated! I did a talk at the user group meeting 
which was kinda about this: http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/share/duncan/

The first question to ask yourself is how much effort is your content 
worth. The rest of the answers flow from that, in my experience. :-)

Duncan
> Hello,
>
> I have used ConTeXt in the past and I have been very pleased with it
> and the results obtained, much more than LaTeX.
>
> Now I am looking into a solution that would allow me to layout the
> content ConTeXt and in other formats that ConTeXt does not (Forgive my
> ignorance, if I am wrong) output, like HTML, Plain Text, or RTF (Those
> are the formats that I can think of that are interesting to me
> currently).
>
> Reading the Wiki one of those solutions would be XML, but I know very
> little about the subject, so this email is to ask about experiences in
> similar endeavors, other solutions for the same problem and how
> practical this is.
>
> I suppose that I would use this for general writing and for academic
> as well (Maths and engineering).
>
> Thanks,
> Pepe
>   
>   
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