Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

[Stefan Seefeld <stefan@seefeld.name>]

On 12/10/2012 10:21 AM, Kerry, Richard wrote:
>  
>> The easiest thing to do would be an editor as XMLMind's XXE 
>> (as Stefan 
>> Seefeld pointed out), or Oxygen XML Editor which my 
>> department is using. 
> That involves buying some editors as we don't currently have any; though I think XXE can be used for free so that might be a possibility for the moment.

Absolutely. There are many XML editors available, some Free, some
proprietary. The choice shouldn't matter for the workflow.
>> Creating common formats like HTML, XHTML, PDF, and EPUB is 
>> pre-configured in Oxygen, so it's just a matter of a few clicks to 
>> produce those formats.
> Because we're used to seeing a particular style of results I'd need to customize this, which is what I'm doing with the stylesheets at the moment.
>  
>> We've set up a 
>> make-based system that works the exact same way on the central build 
>> server and when run locally; for example (for a document 
>> named book.xml):
>>
>> * 'make book.valid': runs xmllint and other tools to validate book.xml
>> * 'make book.html'
>> * 'make book.pdf'
>> * 'make book.epub'
>> * etc.
> I'd need to hide the specific tool as my colleagues aren't used to command-line tools in general, and make in particular.  

That was one reason why I suggested a tool like xxe: It offers a very
convenient GUI to structural documents authoring which may make the
transition easier for people coming from MS Word. But if for you DocBook
is just an intermediate format that may not be very useful.

    Stefan

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