Hi,
Au contraire, the challenge has always been to manage the separation of
concerns so that the information obtains irrespective of style.
Quick example: I was recently looking at some historical receipts. The
first thing that sprung to mind was not "Ooh, is that Arial?" but "Why
was this recipt issued?"
Regards,
James
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Richard Light wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:27:04 +0100
> From: Richard Light <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Museums Computer Group <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [MCG] ODF (ISO 26300) document format vs. OOXML
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> .uk>, "Ottevanger, Jeremy" <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Good point, I can bring in my Word documents to OO and use his filters
>> instead. I had no intention of doing anything so mentally demanding
>> anyway, to be honest! However I must investigate further MS Word's own
>> capabilities for mapping styles to custom schemas - I've found it pretty
>> useful and very easy in Excel so hopefully Word can do a lot more than I
>> currently ask it to.
>
> This reminds me. Another general point about this game ("make my random
> documents into information resources" - great fun for rainy summer
> afternoons) is that you can get _so_ much more value from your source
> documents if they use named styles rather than ad hoc font and layout
> settings. The challenge has always been to get document writers to use
> styles, and to use them consistently.
>
> Richard
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