RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook Editors

["David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" <dcramer@motive.com>]

Well, they give you _a_ rendered view anyway. Lists look like lists, tables look like tables (and you can drag column borders to change widths), images are rendered in place. Serna uses xsl/xsl-fo to drive its rendered view. XXE and XMetaL use CSS with some extensions. You might have buttons to show or hide certain content (e.g. <remark>s, and internal or reviewer only content) that likewise may or may not be shown in a given output. Our inline glossterms are light green in the editor (as a convenience to the writer) but are not formatted at all in pdf and show up as tooltip popups with light underlining in html. XXE and (I think) Serna can show you xincluded text inline and (again I think) let you edit it in place.

 

David

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From: Colin Shapiro [mailto:cmshapiro@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:47 AM
To: David Cramer (Tech Pubs)
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook Editors

How can XML editors be WYSIWYG, when there's no way to tell what a document will look like after XSLT?

Or do they basically do "on-the-fly" transformations, to preview what it will look like in HTML, in print, etc.?

Just curious.

On 5/14/07, David Cramer (Tech Pubs) <dcramer@motive.com> wrote:

XMetaL can be scripted to do anything, but it doesn't have many friendly
DocBook macros out of the box. The included demo Journalist DTD is
similar to DocBook and those macros and features can be converted by
renaming some elements. XMLMind's XXE and Syntext's Serna offer much
better DocBook support out of the box. I know Arbortext's Epic has
DocBook support, but I'm not sure what it has out of the box wrt
convenience macros. I think those are the main four commercial wysiwyg
editors these days.

David

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> To: Eitan Zabari
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> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook Editors
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> XXE? XMetaL?
>
> On 5/14/07, Eitan Zabari <eitanz@jungo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to use an editor for writing Docbook,
> preferably WYSIWYG.
> > I used to write Latex with GVIM (non-wysiwyg), but trying to do the
> > same for Docbook XML is too much overhead, code wise.
> > Which editors are used with Docbook? Can anyone please
> recommend? Are
> > there free editors? Are there commercial editors that are good?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
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