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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/short.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/short.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..26824e29408 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/short.tex @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +\skbheading{The Short Story} + +I have written papers, done a lot of presentations, provided some book chapters, +still working on a book, participated in many research proposals and projects, and +created tons of notes and figures. As of early 2009, most of that information was +distributed over the repositories of different projects and organisations I worked +for, in some document management systems, on several websites, databases, my preferred +email client (which changed twice), different computers and later even different +external hard drives and USB sticks. Looking for specific text or a particular figure +could easily end in a days work. Tools like desktop search engines can help to find +'stuff'. I used them, but if they found anything it was hard to maintain the context +it was written in and some formats or sources were out of reach for them. Even worse +with figures and the many versions some of them evolved in over time. After multiple +jobs and several years, all I had is kind of a very messy base of knowledge, well-hidden +somewhere, thus very difficult to locate and impossible to maintain. + +So I started early 2009 to re-organise my 'stuff'. At the same time, I did realise that +moving away from \LaTeX was part of the problem (and I thought using the other text +processor would help, it actually didn't, long-term). So \LaTeX became, again, the +text processor of choice, and with it the ability for a complete different approach +to organise my 'stuff'. This was the moment the \SKB~was created. \SKB~stands for Sven's +Knowledge Base. The \LaTeX package \skbem[code]{skb}, described in this article, forms part of a larger +software system that uses SQLite databases, a small PHP framework, Apache for HTML access +and recently also a Java port. + +My document repository uses the \skbem[code]{skb} package, so most of my documents are eventually +\LaTeX documents. I am saying eventually because I still use other tools (like Microsoft's Powerpoint), +but integrate their output in my repository. I do all my figures these days using Inkscape, so the source +is SVG and the output for \LaTeX documents PDF. For editing the text files I do flip between UE Studio +and LeD. Parts of the content (such as acronyms and bibliographic information) are maintained in SQLite +databases and exported to \LaTeX. This package now shows how I build my documents.
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