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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook
I have found that a validating editor is not useful if you are trying to take old docs and make them DocBook as I do not know how to get it to put the tags around a block of text. Phill > -----Original Message----- > > Since the conversion was completed I have been entering lots of > > extra content with an ordinary editor (jed). I understand there is a > > great DocBook interface available with emacs, but I haven't bothered > > with it yet because it is not really needed. From my experience I > > would assert you don't need any special tool to edit and improve > > documentation written in DocBook. The tags that are ordinarily used > > are easy to memorize. Of course, it probably helps that I am a good > > touch typist. If you don't have that skill I guess you need to find > > some tool that gives you WYSIWYG. But it wasn't necessary in my > > case, and I suspect that is true for most documenters. > > Yipes -- all due respect, but I think your suspicion may be way off. > > The big advantage of an editor like Emacs/psgml is that it takes much > of the guesswork out of document authoring. Validating editors by > design make it hard to produce invalid documents. Using a validating > editor, you really have to go out of your way to make something that > won't validate. Only way you can do it is to type tags in manually -- > which you should never need to do with a good XML editing app.
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