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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] "WYSIWYG Writer" Friendly Editing Tools
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:51, Johnson, Eric wrote: > One of the issues facing the writing group with which I work is finding > tools that are "WYSIWYG writer" friendly so that the majority of writers in > the group don't immediately give up on writing documentation in XML because > "it looks ugly", "I don't know what it will look like when I'm done", "it > looks too much like code", "there is no support for automatically keeping > track of cross reference anchors", and so on. There is a long history of > Frame Maker use in the group and an ongoing effort to make Frame Maker, > using a template that looks and feels exactly like our old unstructured > Frame Maker template, edit Docbook XML. The effort to make Frame Maker work > as a Docbook editor has gotten close, but there are a number of things it > just cannot handle yet and I'd much rather spend my time, and that of the > other writers, getting comfortable with a lighter weight tool that actually > is built for working with XML. Does anybody have suggestions for either an > XML editor that is close to WYSIWYG and supports text entities? XXE does a > great job with WYSIWYG, but does not support text entities. Suggestions > about how to break the dependency on WYSIWIG would also be greatly > appreciated. Try Syntext Serna or XXE (XMLmind Professional) -- Sean Wheller Technical Author email: sean@inwords.co.za im: seanwhe@jabber.org skype: seanwhe cel: +27-84-854-9408 web: http://www.inwords.co.za
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