[generguide-user] Re: Contributing Author

[Cameron S. <ca...@sh...>]

On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:48 pm, you wrote:
> So, did you want to say something. Or just testing.

Ah sorry, I was waiting for you to open the conversation.  :)
I didn't want to eager to suck up all your ideas and time and potentially 
scare you away.

Sean Wheller wrote:
> My first thoughts, having read the Web Site, is that the
>
> principles of "generguide" must embody a broader concept
>
> that can be applied independent of the DTD or XML Schema
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> used to create the XML Instances. Consequently, I think that
>
> the principles should cater to a wider group of document
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> types. While Simplified DocBook is great for the purpose of
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> illustrating the concepts of "generguide" I think that the
>
> application should be easily applied to the other doctypes.

I'd be interested to hear your ideas on this subject.  What problems you think 
we will encounter and any ideas you may have on solving them?
What do you think we should do to change the scope of the project?  What 
applications, templates, etc should we be developing?
I want to know HOW we should change what we are doing now.

At the moment there are 2 people working on this project, Artur and myself.  
We are both programmers rather than tech writers and ideas on building a 
documentation structure are very welcome.

Currently we are writing tools which will build a generguide configuration 
file, then build a document based on that file.  I guess that will take a 
month or so to a point where we can release to the public.

Oh, I'm also interested to know how you would like to help.
Advice on stragagies?
Write documentation?
Work on the tools?
Something else?

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