Re: Book: can we incorporate O'Reilly's edits?

At 9:30 AM -0500 10/21/04, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:
>
>> It's also not uncommon, at least judging from my experiences in this
>> area, and those of everyone else I've talked to... It seems that
>> after you hit a certain point in the publishing process last minute
>> changes are made in the framemaker (or whatever equivalent tool the
>> publisher is using) version of the book directly, rather than making
>> the change in the original (in this case docbook) version and
>> reimporting into frame.
>
>That's exactly the case here (and for the same reasons you described
>in your mail). At this point, they are simply unable to provide us
>anything even resembling a patchfile. :-(

        Well, can they export the printed edition from FrameMaker as
XML (or something ASCII-based), and then re-import the original XML
to FrameMaker and export that for comparison?

        Presumably a diff of the virgin vs. tweaked versions would at
least provide a list of things to review, and hopefully most of those
are already reflected in later revisions of the repository...

                                                Chris Pepper

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