[oXygen-user] No Framework for NLM?

[Wendell Piez]

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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