[oXygen-user] No Framework for NLM?

Eliot Kimber
Fri Oct 1 10:17:35 CDT 2010


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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