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Subject: [docbook-apps] "WYSIWYG Writer"
Friendly Editing Tools
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.