[oXygen-user] No Framework for NLM?

[Eliot Kimber]

I am finally starting on my journals-related project and so now have a
mandate (and time) to put together a proper NLM framework for Oxygen.

Wendell--I'll take whatever you're willing to share.

Cheers,

E.

On 10/1/10 10:17 AM, "Eliot Kimber" <> wrote:

> Point taken.
> 
> I will happily accept any useful NLM support bits and try to integrate them
> into an NLM framework.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> E.
> 
> On 10/1/10 9:33 AM, "Wendell Piez" <> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Eliot,
>> 
>> (Sorry, I was out yesterday.)
>> 
>> At 07:08 PM 9/29/2010, you wrote:
>>> Yes, this is not the venue to argue implementation approaches. Just pointing
>>> out that I would not bank on much future direct authoring of NLM.
>> 
>> Even given that that's arguable (over beer, preferably), oXygen's
>> Authoring features are really nice for all kinds of things besides
>> authoring directly -- I'm thinking of editorial and sub-editorial
>> tasks, validation against house rules and house style, stuff like
>> that. So, sure, journal article authors may persist in using word
>> processors for a long time to come (I even have a thesis for a
>> conference paper waiting in the wings on why that is) -- and yet
>> support for NLM authoring could still be a strategic asset for oXygen.
>> 
>> So to me, the question isn't so much how useful an NLM/JATS framework
>> for oXygen would be, but how to motivate the work.
>> 
>> I (and Mulberry) have other stuff in our kit besides CSS that could
>> be useful for this, if anyone's interested. Just no time to do
>> anything with it. :-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Wendell
>> 
>> 
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