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+\opt{note}{\skbheading{The Long Story, Part II}}
+
+A solution is to create a unified document repository, then use
+this repository as 'normative source' to create documents for specific
+purposes while leaving the text blocks, headings, figures, presentations,
+references, acronyms and all other reusable 'stuff' in the repository for
+the next document which might (hopefully will) benefit from them. This can
+(did it for me already) safe a lot of time, demands archiving (of
+published documents, thus creating a traceable history), helps to keep
+important information updated (without jeopardising any other work) and
+prevents losing any 'stuff'.
+
+The repository needs a few rules, a (customisable) structure but beside
+that only a bit of effort to be maintained. To give an example: while
+writing the first version of this article (May 11, 2009), I have moved 4
+lecture notes, 2 presentations, 1 book chapter, 1 book (in writing), 1
+textbook (for students, with 4 chapters) and 4 articles from my 'mess'
+into my repository. This involved some re-formatting (plus the occasional
+re-drawing) to bring the original sources into the target formats. At the
+same time I did develop the rules of my repository, the structure and the
+(mostly \LaTeX) code (and re-wrote/structured/ruled most of them a few
+times). I ended up with 1,314 files in 87 folders, which create 9 articles, 2
+books, 1 textbook, 3 lecture notes and this document (note: the number of
+articles increased, because I could re-assemble 'stuff' for new uses,
+spending some five minutes per one new article). I did remove roughly 100
+pages of text (take the classic Spring LNCS format and you get the point
+of the number of characters) and some 40 figures (all duplicates). I did
+find way too many errors in the original sources (most of which have been
+created by 're-using' them earlier from even more-original-sources).