Re: Writing stylesheets for Web and PDF output?

Hi Dan,

I am working in a similar environment, except we use 2 different sets of stylesheets, but have many imported/included stylesheets shared across the IETM and PDF. Like you, we have a S1000D input to publish a MIL-STD-40051 output. As you know the 40051 output covers a number of different Technical Manuals (PDF output). We have over 15 Publication Modules which share over 1000 data modules. We use a "pipeline" approach like you do. We have been doing this for 2 years with great success. Managing 2 sets of stylesheets for 2 completely different outputs is manageable. In fact, I prefer it this way. But trying to great a single set of stylesheets to output 2 completely different outputs (IETM or PDF) would be a nightmare to manage (IMO).

Phil



On May 26, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Dan Vint wrote:

> I have at least 3 environments that I need to keep consistent.
> 1) Arbortext editing environment
> 2) IETM output as HTML
> 3) 3rd party application that merges the data modules together into one XML file that is then processed to make the PDF. Originally designed to be a mil-spec manual output but typically now just used for review copies where the requirement is to make it more like the IETM output.

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