Carsten

My day job is to create text blocks with illustrations (topics) for technical user manuals. I assemble them to manuals which are published in the following formats:

PDF documents for printing,
HTML documents for the web, and
CHM (Windows help files) for display within our software products (F1 key).

Some of those topics are “reused”, e.g. a topic like [...]

I just came across this wonderful page called Smashwords which has been available for some months now.
On the About page it says:
“Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.At Smashwords, our authors [...]

[...] technologies can sometimes be useful to literary translators as well, says Bowker. “They can compile a list of an author’s favourite expressions, as well as sentences or words that were translated in earlier works. By cataloguing neologisms or lexical creations so that they can be compared with a larger sample, technology can help the [...]