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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/long2.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/long2.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..60ddd759ea2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/long2.tex @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +\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). |