Re: DD: Expanded outline for DSSSL Handbook

[Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18 Jun 1997 12:07 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
 > QUESTIONS
 > ---------
 > 
 > who will complete this outline? David Pawson, John Fieber or Tony
 > Graham? I suggest one of those three finalize it, and reissue the SGML
 > structure, with IDs so that someone can track what is and what is not
 > done. I don't think its that hard to see what a work unit is.

I'm working on an overall description of the book (currently referred
to as "The DSSSL Handbook") plus a description of the chapters.  My
intention is then to ask people to volunteer to look after individual
chapters, rewriting my descriptions as necessary and further dividing
their chapters into chunks that people can take on.

For one person to coordinate the whole thing would be a nightmare;  if
we divide up the work by chapters, then more people get nightmares,
but at least they'll be less severe.

 > does anyone volunteer to write a trivial .dsl to make this HTML for
 > initial viewing?

Please.

 > would it make sense to post a catalogue of work units, and ask anyone
 > who thinks they can write to indicate which ones they will take on?
 > then correlate a proposed work schedule?

Exactly what I've been thinking.  The outline of the book will go on
the web site, including the description of each chapter and as much
description as we have of what's inside each chapter.  The web page
will indicate who's doing what and what's still vacant, but signing up
to do a chunk will probably require contacting a chapter's editor (for
want of a better term), and the editors will let me know of changes to
their chapter's details as necessary so I can update the web page.

The whole book should follow the maxim of "Publish early and publish
often" so chapter editors should forward their chapters to me fairly
often so I can put the entire book on the web and ftp sites.
Individual editors can also make their chapters available on their
sites.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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