docbook-apps

  • 1.  Re: [docbook-apps] WYSIWYG Editor for docbook

    Posted 08-14-2012 23:47
    I just wanted to say that as a technical writer using docbook, I find
    that Oxygen XML Author does 98% of what I need. It's about $150
    cheaper than the XML Editor license. XML Editor has a few more
    debugging features which for me are not terribly important. On the
    other hand, it has some cool wysiwig features and epub support.

    I was pleasantly surprised to see that copy from html into an Oxygen
    docbook file works surprisingly well. I have more problems when
    pasting from MSWord directly -- which is odd, because my html comes
    from MS Word after processing through Wordoff, (an online utility for
    tidying up Word-generated HTML).






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  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] WYSIWYG Editor for docbook

    Posted 08-15-2012 06:59
    Hi Robert,

    > I was pleasantly surprised to see that copy from html into an Oxygen
    > docbook file works surprisingly well.

    Yes, it's useful to quickly import some content (especially tables,
    lists) while converting some of the styling to Docbook tags.

    > I have more problems when pasting from MSWord directly -- which is odd, because my html comes
    > from MS Word after processing through Wordoff, (an online utility for
    > tidying up Word-generated HTML).

    What would those problems be? We try to convert the HTML flavor MS Word
    sets in the clipboard to Docbook but MS Word produces quite complex
    XHTML structures and maybe improvements are possible in this area.
    If you have a test document you want to share you could also write us
    directly at "support@oxygenxml.com".

    Regards,
    Radu

    Radu Coravu
    <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
    http://www.oxygenxml.com

    On 8/15/2012 2:47 AM, Robert Nagle wrote:
    > I just wanted to say that as a technical writer using docbook, I find
    > that Oxygen XML Author does 98% of what I need. It's about $150
    > cheaper than the XML Editor license. XML Editor has a few more
    > debugging features which for me are not terribly important. On the
    > other hand, it has some cool wysiwig features and epub support.
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    > I was pleasantly surprised to see that copy from html into an Oxygen
    > docbook file works surprisingly well. I have more problems when
    > pasting from MSWord directly -- which is odd, because my html comes
    > from MS Word after processing through Wordoff, (an online utility for
    > tidying up Word-generated HTML).
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