Re: [GD-Design] Design Documents

[Loic B. <loi...@wa...>]

Sounds interesting! :)
But I don't know how long it'd take to implement the structure. I'm not a
HTML/XML expert (far from it). Any hints ?

Do you people always use Word for the doc writing ??? Well, I used to do
that too...But I got criticized (harly ;)) by someone who works with me that
it produces too big files (indeed, it does)...
Well, finally, Frontpage is a good way to go, I don't regret the switch.

Loic

----- Original Message -----
From: "gabor farkas" <xl...@po...>
To: "GD Design" <gam...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [GD-Design] Design Documents


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip Harris" <ph...@me...>
> To: "GD Design" <gam...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 9:45 AM
> Subject: RE: [GD-Design] Design Documents
>
>
> > > To answer to Phil, we're doing many many HTML pages. Each page
> > > use a CSS we
> > > develop to reduce the size of the file, and to always have the
> possibility
> > > to modify a given style with automatic change in all the pages.
> > > We'll maybe
> > > use Microsoft Help Workshop to compile the whole into one big file,
but
> I
> > > dunno if it works with CSS...
> >
> > Have you been able to produce a professional looking printed version of
> the
> > design docs? I like the idea of the HTML based design doc but there
seems
> to
> > be a problem when it comes to producing versions for publishers etc.
> Getting
> > a decent printed version seems like a lot of work. Having said that I
may
> > just be behind on my HTML theory and really it's a lot more controllable
> > these days.
>
> maybe you should use xsl formatting objects...
> so you create your documentation in xml....
> then you transform it automatically with xslt into html
> or use another xsl file ( the xsl-fo ) to tranform it into a .fo
file,which
> can
> be converted into pdf....
>
> this way, you only create one data file ( the xml ) with multiple views (
> the xsl )...
>
>
> but it's possible that this all is just too complex and you can live with
> word ( + his html export )
> :-)
>
>
> gabor