Re: Frame + SGML: is it for me?

["Craig Ede" <craig.ede@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dick Phillips wrote:
	>>snip>>
	The [SGML] "advantages" are two-fold:
	
	(1) It tends to make all of an organizations document look alike.
	
	(2) It makes it possible to grab a large block from one document and
	drop it seamlessly into another document.
	
	Hated it, myself.  Can't stand having my creativity stifled.
	<<unsnip<<

Yeah, I know the feeling. I have a couple of dozen "creative" types coming up with new solutions to formatting. The problem is, their 2 page dash of creativity doesn't look like anything else in the 1250+ page document. God knows what an unsuspecting reader might think when they come across it, but I doubt that they think "Gee, how creative!"

Of course, I work with long, technical documents here at Medtronic and save the creativity for the 1) more global document solutions, 2) after hours painting sessions(especially watercolor!) and 3) fax art projects.

Nah! I wouldn't worry about the being stifled by SGML, especially if the environment you are in requires it. The "advantages" are advantages if you use them creatively.

Craig Ede
Los Jugadores Bazutadores
Creativity lecturer and creator/organizer of "The Exquisite Fax series" of fax-art projects, which included a 10 by 20 foot grid assemblage of 330 faxes contributed by artists world-wide (each artist seeing only the faxes immediately above and to the left of their linked contribution to the image). (Say that five times, fast!)


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