We met today and it was a gloriously short meeting -- we made great headway in 20 minutes.
We compared the two guides I had shared (from two companies using DocBook) and agreed that one of the guides held great promise as a model. Since my August is a little less crazy than some other folks', I volunteered to start working with the XML the company had thoughtfully provided to begin customizing it for Evergreen's needs. I've got the files open in oXygen... not sure I'll have a working styleguide by tomorrow afternoon, but wouldn't rule out some work on it! Here are some of the areas that we felt needed to differ from the styleguide (aside from changing corporate references to refer to Evergreen, and licensing to Creative Commons ;) ) Lynn Floyd -- liked the layout of metroguide but Progress software had better material for our needs (this was a consensus) Lynn -- heed the elements unused, citation, isbn, issn -- these could be useful for us (depends on how they are defined) Lynn -- Reorder things: figures, screen shots, inline, graphics -- put before tables and lists -- consensus Question: format? for graphics? implications? Jennifer -- thinks jpeg is more widely used Lynn -- PNG -- more cross-platform-friendly Karen: What are the sizing options? Note: need to write graphics-independent content -- for reuse in translations All: we agreed to make the exclusion list much shorter (the list of excluded tags) -- -- | Karen G. Schneider | Community Librarian | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts" | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712 | [email protected] | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
