Roundtripper, yeah... (single-source publishing)

Added By Tony Byrne at 21-May-2004 | Twitter: @TonyByrne |

One of the bigger conundrums in single-source, multichannel publishing is "roundtripping": getting changes that you make on a particular rendition of a document (usually in Quark or some other layout tool) back into the original source repository from whence that content came, to retain a sole source of the truth. Michael Gross, CTO of Data Conversion Labs, has put together a short primer on how to improve roundtripping. Not surprisingly, a lot has to do with how you structure the document once it's passed to the word processing or layout environment, where editors and designers may be tempted to get more casual in their use of elements and styles. Our favorite bit of wisdom: "Tables should be tables" (something SGMLers can relate to)...
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