[Wolves] DocBook XML editing for normal people

[Mike Peters]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:31:28 +0000
Schwuk <schwuk at schwuk.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 22:41 +0000, Andy Wootton wrote:
> > A couple of us recently discussed our failures to convince 'decision
> > 
> > makers' that real people would be able to maintain DocBook XML
> > documents.
> > 
> > I've spotted this promising project that I intend to keep an eye on.
> > 
> > http://www.conglomerate.org/
> 
> I spotted that, and tried it. Looks OK as a docbook/XML editor, but is
> lacking as an end-user editor.
> 
> What we need is an editor that supports WYSIWYG editing of docbook
> documents, outputs valid docbook, and displays according to attached
> stylesheets. Basically OOo Writer or MS Word, but you can only select
> the style (title, section etc) - not edit the style itself.
> 
> This will allow people to generate docbook documentation with worrying
> about the inner workings, and that is how we will sell it.
> 
I don't know whether you've come across it before or whether it suits
your needs, but there's LyX: http://www.lyx.org/

It takes a bit of getting used to but once you're over the initial
learning curve it's pretty good at what it does.
-- 
Mike
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