Abstract
Abstract:
Concordia is designed as a development environment for technical writers. From Symbolics, Concordia is an extension of Genera, the software development environment for Symbolics computers. Concordia has specialized support of the different phases of a document life cycle: writing, editing illustration, design, production, and maintenance. Concordia is part of the Symbolics documentation system, where the central component is the document database. It is a framework organizing the tasks and activities in the document life cycle, with three main subactivities: text editing, graphic editing, and previewing. Concordia provides a number of ways of looking at a document, including: seeing the reader's viewpoint (WYSIWYG), local hardcopy, preview, and final hardcopy. The approach has been particularly successful in the areas of fast prototyping, on-line delivery, quality enhancement, and maintenance.
