Single Sourcing in Technical Communication

Iris Fibinger
Comet Communication GmbH

80336 Munich
Germany
e-mail: fibinger@comet-comm.de
phone: ++49-89-5998-9260
fax: ++49-89-5998-9269
webpage: http://www.comet-comm.de/

Keywords: single sourcing, technical communication, technical documentation, technical illustration

Abstract

Technical Communication covers miscellaneous applications:

• Technical Manuals
• Online-Documentation
• Technical Illustrations
• Multimedia-Presentations
• or rather simple animations

So far you needed a separate tool for each purpose und had to use several document formats for distribution and archiving. The xml-based format SVG cleans up with this misery, because SVG allows to use one single source for text, illustrations and animations ("Single Sourcing").