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HTML and CSS are probably the absolute worst thing for document creation and management. HTML/CSS are in fact complex, and suffer major issues with export, long
by macspoofing 8y ago
HTML and CSS are probably the absolute worst thing for document creation and management. HTML/CSS are in fact complex, and suffer major issues with export, long-term backup, sharing/collaboration, revision control, review-workflows, printing, security (encryption and password access) and consistent presentation. This is why you want government documents stored in PDF, ODF, or DOCX and not in HTML/CSS.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoAFAIU, (there's probably better insight out there)— but governments seem to love XML.
- macspoofing 8y agoSure. There's a reason why ODF and DOCX are both xml-based formats in a zip container.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoRight right! I don't have to work with them often, if ever, so I always forget that's the case. Then again, it's the same in the inDesign/inCopy world as well.
- pjmlp 8y agoI loved when I worked on a project where the product documention was based on Docbook. We could use Oxygen and generate all necessary documentation in multiple formats, without needing any Tex typesetting macro magic.