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DITA Open Toolkit Workshop - Making it Work for You (Santa Clara, CA),
September 9-11, 2008,California
Graphic designers and programmers create the style sheets and the authoring template, or they may simply be the default templates for a CMS. An authoring template separates the presentation from the content.
Content contributors do not need to be concerned about the template. They may enter content as plain text or with a WYSIWYG editor. They may get to preview their content as it will appear on the published page, which is generated from a publishing template.
See also content repurposing, content reuse, publishing template, and single-source publishing.
A batch system typically takes its commands from a set of instructions stored in a file, and returns the results to a file Often there is a queue of jobs which the system processes as resources become available.
Since the advent of the personal computer, the term "batch" has come to mean automating frequently performed tasks that would otherwise be done interactively by storing those commands in a "batch file" or "script". Usually this file is read by some kind of command interpreter but batch processing is sometimes used with GUI-based applications that define script equivalents for menu selections and other mouse actions. Such a recorded sequence of GUI actions is sometimes called a "macro". This may only exist in memory and may not be saved to disk whereas a batch normally implies something stored on disk.
[Contributed by Paola Di Maio]
