Re: Beautified documents

[paula.heilig@worldspan.com]

thank you for your invaluable contribution.  most of us were working so
hard trying to complete the work/documents that we did not have time to
think about beautifying them.

paula heilig



                                                                                           
                    Todd Boyle                                                             
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Don't beautify documents with excessive margins and page breaks.
Beautify the planet instead, by reducing paper and (ugh) toner usage.

This also improves efficiency of developers because you don't have to
flip pages as often.  It also encourages people to print the specs and
keep them closer to the desktop.  It increases the average density of
information in the developers workspace.  They're more likely to bring
ebXML specifications to conferences.  They fit in your carryon bags.
Your adoption improves because your rules are physically present at
the scene of the arguments.

For example, attached are beautified versions of:

 * Naming Convention for Core Components v1.04
   (ebCCNAMbeaut.doc) prints in 7 pages instead of 13.

 * Core Component Structure v1.04 (ccSTRUCTbeaut.xls)
   prints in 7 pages instead of 26.

I'd like to see the e-commerce standards bodies agree on standards for
conservation in document formatting.  For example, the EDIFACT specs and
OAGI are notorious for low information density per page.

Furthermore, these ebXML docs, OAGIS docs, etc. should be available in
HTML versions.  That would reduce the need for printing by some folks,
perhaps.

If standards bodies pooled resources they might be able to afford an XML
platform for content management.  Users could generate the formats
(HTML, DOC, PDF, etc) and information density preferences they desire,
from a single set of content docs and multiple stylesheets.   The ultimate
stylesheet would be the little "command summary" cards that come with
O'Reilly books.

respectfully,
Todd Boyle CPA kirkland wa
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