Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook toolchain tips

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

For graphical XML editors, if being free is not a requirement then you 
should also look at XMetal from Blast Radius, Serna from Syntext, and 
Arbortext Editor from PTC.

For making the case for DocBook, you might want to take a look at the 
slides for a presentation I made last year on "Single Source Publishing 
With DocBook XSL".  It is available from my website home page:

http://www.sagehill.net

Feel free to borrow the ideas and bullet points to make your case.  If you 
borrow the slide set, I'd appreciate getting some credit.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luciano Scavizzi" <feanorelf@gmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:17 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Docbook toolchain tips


I am pushing my company to adopt Docbook as a "documentation
standard", but, of course, my (questionable) personal charme is not a
point good enough  to convince my colleagues and our senior
management.

As speaking of semantics precision and separation of content from
format is not that a involving subject, the basic point I am making
out is the advantage of single-source documents.

On the other hand, I usually write my XML docs with a plain text
editor, I do not think many employees of ours are confident with
markup languages and would switch happily from MS Word to inputing
tagged text in an editor. I wonder if you can suggest some esy-to-use
authoring tool (I've already tried Sydoc) for Win32.

Furthermore, as a FO formatter, I am realizing FOP, while being more
than enough form my personal use, is far from flawless.
I have tested XSL Formatter and XEP, and I must say I like very much
the former for its speed and its neat output (I also understood it has
a very good standard compliance). I have also found on the web many
more tools I haven't tested yet, and I could not find any
comprehensive fo-support comparison chart, but one at
http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/comparison-fo.htm. Which of the
processors around are worth a try in your opinion?
My minimum requirements are good SVG support and a "predictable"
behavior (i.e. adhere quite strictly to w3c recommendations).

Thanks,
Luciano

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