[Fwd: Re: press release format, for translation too]

[Karsten Wade]

Greg at al:

Please take a look at the press release format that Tommy put together.
Working in XML allows us to plug into translation easily.

If you want the full thread, I explain some of the other ideas we have
thought about:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2006-February/msg00028.html

Tommy's solution is nice because it's easy to edit, IMO.  Hopefully it's
easy enough even for Marketing types.

/me runs

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From: Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds at MegaCoder.com>
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Subject: Re: press release format, for translation too
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:04:50 -0600
Uttered Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>, spake thus:

> > Got an example of a pretty press release you like?
> IMO, it should be like what are delivered to Business Wire.  Plain text,
> written to follow a non-bylined journalistic style:
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060131/20060131005159.html?.v=1

I've put together a 0.0.0.0test1 version of a Press Release
technology, based on a tiny DTD and an XSL stylesheet.  It's not
DocBook, but still tiny enough to be understood or copied at a
glance.

Find a copy at:

	http://www.megacoder.com/pub/press/
	ftp://ftp.megacoder.com/pub/press/

I've also included a dummy release in both PDF and TXT formats, made
using the latest FOP from CVS and my hacked xmlto that uses it.
Lacking that, you should be able to run xsltproc manually.

I didn't quite know what to do about identifying the source of the
press release, or a byline, or the like, so I just left it out.  They
could be added if you have an example; I'm flying blind here.

Cheers

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