Microsoft SGML at Seybold
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From sgmlinfo@support.avalanche.com Thu Aug 25 13:16:49 1994
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 09:38:13 -0600
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Subject: SGMLNW: Microsoft SGML at Seybold
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MICROSOFT & AVALANCHE TO
ANNOUNCE JOINT SGML OFFERING AT SEYBOLD
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Attached below is a "sneak preview" of a joint product
announcement at Seybold San Francisco. Interested editors
attending Seybold are invited to stop by the booth to find out
more and catch a demo! Avalanche will be located at booth #3705
as well as in the Microsoft booth. Contact Linda Turner, the
SGML Newswire list manager, to receive a free VIP pass to the
show.
Avalanche Development Company is focusing on two new
offerings at this year's Seybold San Francisco. The
first is a set of products and services specially
designed to work with Microsoft's new SGML product.
Avalanche's product, called SureSTYLE, is a tool that
allows users to ensure that their Word documents make
rigorous, complete use of styles according to chosen
templates.
Many companies today use Word as an authoring tool for
enterprise-wide publishing. These companies need to
ensure that Word is used in the structured and
style-constrained fashion required for document reuse
across an enterprise. SureSTYLE enables this process by
giving companies and authors an automatic way of making
the transition from the typical use of Word to this more
rigorous, enterprise-centered use. SureSTYLE will be
critically important to companies wanting to move legacy
collections of Word documents into SGML and into
electronic delivery.
Avalanche is also announcing the Avalanche Author
Assistant for Word package, which bundles SureSTYLE with
training and services to ensure the successful
implementation of the new Microsoft Word SGML solution
wherever it is adopted. Avalanche's new companion
products for Word will be featured at the Avalanche
station in the Microsoft booth.
The second set of products and services addresses the
more general problem of document reuse, whether the
documents are authored in Word, WordPerfect, or
Interleaf. For years Avalanche has been selling its
FastTAG conversion software to a wide variety of
customers who are moving toward electronic as well as
paper-based distribution of information. This kind of
multiple use of documents is much more manageable when
customers can deal with the documents' fundamental
components and structure, rather than just the final
printed form.
FastTAG has always been the tool of choice for this kind of
work. At this year's Seybold Avalanche is introducing
version 2.0 of the product, which differs greatly from the
first version in its ability to be embedded in other user
applications. Version 2.0 also provides a new "run time"
tool that makes FastTAG available and affordable as part of
enterprise-wide conversion solutions. At its booth on the
show floor Avalanche will be showcasing version 2.0's
capabilities with FastTAG applications. These applications
produce SGML and prepare documents for electronic
distribution, including distribution on the World Wide Web
using Mosaic.
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