RE: [docbook-apps] Using OpenOffice as a DocBook editor

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:53 -0500, David Cramer (Tech Pubs) wrote:
> Yep. You have two choices: take a word processor and make it act like an
> xml editor or take an xml editor and make it feel like a word processor.
If my word processor produces XML (e.g. to the Oasis standard) then
I don't need it to act at all.


> 
> 
> I think to convince non-geeks, you have to give them something that's no
> more complicated than Frame wrt tagging, crossreferencing, etc. and in
> addition gives them convenience tools that repay them immediately for
> the extra effort of doing semantic markup (e.g. various views of the doc
> based on the semantics: a list of figures, tables, remarks, that make it
> possible to move around quickly...like Word's Document Map but with
> semantics).

If the style information reflects semantics, and is available in the
saved
document... why put in the extra effort David?

I thought Frame was following SGML; is it still going strong?

regards DaveP