docbook-apps

You're correct Paul. However, even the WYSIWYG tools mentioned do not give
you true WYSIWYGness like Word will give you. Its more of a rough
approximation. It because of the nature of divorcing the content from the style
(especially in the FO generation).

But if rough approximation is good enough then the tools that folks have
suggested will get you there. Eclipse probably won't.



In a message dated 8/13/2012 1:14:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
paul_t100@fastmail.fm writes:

I think youve missed the point here Dean, I want a WYSIWYG editor which
can save as docbook format, not an Xml Editor

On 13/08/2012 14:17, DeanNelson@aol.com wrote:
> You're correct Paul. However, even the WYSIWYG tools mentioned do not
> give you true WYSIWYGness like Word will give you. Its more of a rough
> approximation. It because of the nature of divorcing the content from
> the style (especially in the FO generation).
> But if rough approximation is good enough then the tools that folks
> have suggested will get you there. Eclipse probably won't.
> In a message dated 8/13/2012 1:14:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> paul_t100@fastmail.fm writes:
>
> I think youve missed the point here Dean, I want a WYSIWYG editor
> which can save as docbook format, not an Xml Editor
>
Im giving Oxygen a go, found it a bit difficult to use at first but now
getting the hang of it.
One advantage is does seem to have is not only can you work with docbook
xml its also setup to generate html/pdf ecetera form the xml with minium
effort.

Paul

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:21:55 +0100, Paul Taylor <paul_t100@fastmail.fm>
wrote:
> Im giving Oxygen a go, found it a bit difficult to use at first but now
> getting the hang of it.
> One advantage is does seem to have is not only can you work with docbook

> xml its also setup to generate html/pdf ecetera form the xml with minium

> effort.

XMLMind (http://www.xmlmind.com) has also been mentioned. We use it in
our projects with a slightly modified version of DocBook v5 (we added a
couple additional constructs, which was not a hard task). There's a slight
initial learning curve--I don't think there's any DocBook editor which is
truly wysiwyg--but our writers and editors have adopted well. There is a
free version as well as a licensed version; the free version is quite
capable, in fact there's very little that the professional version adds.
(We do use the pro version, in part because we need its capability to
interact with a WebDAV server for purposes of using svn.)

Mike Maxwell
University of Maryland