Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Questions Concerning Style Sheets

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Friday 7 July 2000, at 9 h 29, the keyboard of Holger Rauch 
<Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> wrote:

> 5. Are there any free (and good) WYSIWYG programs available for writing
> DocBook documents 

In the SGML/XML world, WYSIWYG means nothing. When you write DocBook, you 
describe content and structure, not presentation (which is left to the 
stylesheets). If you insist on WYSIWYG (which is an archaic way of thinking 
because it assumes only one output device, typically paper), do not use SGML 
or XML.

> 8. When I convert tables to TeX, then process the file using jadetex,
> converting it to PostScript using dvips, and then preview it using "xdvi",
> the situation concerning table formatting is even worse.

Yes. I'm afraid there is no solution short of rewriting jadetex or trying 
XML+XSL+PassiveTeX.