Balisage Paper: Could authors really write in XML one day?
August 6 - 9, 2013
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Slides and Materials
- Bal2013flyn0902-slides.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF.
Ebel, Hans Friedrich; Bliefert,
Claus; and Russey, William E. The Art of Scientific
Writing: From Student Reports to Professional Publications in
Chemistry and Related Fields.
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim,
Germany, 2nd ed. 2005. ISBN 9783527298297.
Flynn, Peter. Formatting
Information.
Special issue of TUGboat 23:2, 2002.
TeX Users Group, Portland, OR. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/,
§8.2.5, p.158.
Flynn, Peter. If XML is so
easy, how come it’s so hard?: The usability of editing
software for structured documents.
Presented at the
Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2006, Montréal, Canada,
August 7–11, 2006. http://research.ucc.ie/articles/extreme06
Flynn, Peter. Why writers
don't use XML: The usability of editing software for
structured documents.
Presented at Balisage: The
Markup Conference 2009, Montréal, Canada, August 11–14, 2009. In
Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009. Balisage
Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 3 (2009). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol3.Flynn01.
Geers, Frederik.
User-friendly structured document editing: removing
barriers for author acceptance.
Masters Thesis,
Content and Knowledge Engineering, University of
Utrecht.
Joloboff, Vania.
Document Representation: Concepts and standards.
In Andre, J; Furuta, R; and Quint, V: Structured
Documents, CUP, Cambridge UK, 1989,
pp.75–105.
McLeish, Sheri; McNabb, Kyle;
Tsang, Keith. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft
Word Love Story.
Forrester Research Inc, Cambridge MA,
Report 46409, December 2008. http://www.forrester.com/home?docid=46409#/Breaking+Up+Is+Hard+To+Do+The+Microsoft+Word+Love+Story/fulltext/-/E-RES46409
Piez, Wendell and Usdin, Tommie.
Separating Mapping from Coding in Transformation
Tasks.
Presented at the XML Conference, Boston, MA,
December 3–5, 2007.
Reid, Brian. Scribe: A
Document Specification Language and its Compiler.
PhD
Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1980.
Schultz, Michael.
Microsoft Office Is Right at Home.
Microsoft
Corporation, 8 Jan 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2009/jan09/01-08cesofficeqaschultz.aspx
Snyder, Carolyn. Paper
Prototyping.
Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier Science), San
Francisco, 2003. ISBN 1558608702.