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Subject: Re: [regrep] Format for our documents
The OpenOffice format will likely embed all of the style information leaving the XML as a bunch of goop. But hey...we can open it in Notepad. DocBook is my suggestion, and I'll point out that many technical books are written in DocBook. Those authors manage. I don't want to argue this, just please take my suggestion (or leave it). The virtues of DocBook are well documented. A well structured document source tree, as evidenced in Norm Walsh's Docbook: The Definitive Guide actually reduces document complexity. -Matt Farrukh Najmi wrote: > Matthew MacKenzie wrote: > >> I think that you should use DocBook. I hear it too is an OASIS spec :-) >> >> Relying on WYSIWYG for complex technical documents scares me a little >> bit, but that is just me. > > > And not having a modern, state-of-the-art WYSIWYG editor for complex > documents scares the living day lights out of me. This to me is the > most important requirement out of the three I proposed. > >> Look at the W3C, what they are doing is working quite well, and they >> use an XML format. > > > And Open Office uses an XML format. One that is the basis for the Open > Office Format TC and their future standard. > >> >> >> -Matt >> >> Farrukh Najmi wrote: >> >>> Changed subject title to protect the innocent... >>> >>> >>>> Farrukh Najmi wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> BTW I like the idea of having HTML version of specs available >>>>> online. I propose we do this for our specs as well. Any objections? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> Duane Nickull wrote: >>> >>>> Docbook? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Actually all I was thinking is to save the document as HTML. This is >>> a cheap and mindless act. >>> >>> The current spec source in in Word. It has several problems due to >>> limitations in Word for large documents. Longer term I would like to >>> move away from Word. I was thinking of Open Office which is the >>> basis for the Open Office Format TC: >>> >>> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office >>> >>> Important criterea for choice of formats are: >>> >>> -Open format (ideally XML) >>> >>> -WYSIWYG Editors that are useable and reliable >>> >>> -Ideally freely available software >>> >>> Open Office meets each of the above requirements. Software is freely >>> available from: >>> >>> http://www.openoffice.org >>> >>> Also since it can open Word formats migration from Word to Open >>> Office would be relatively painless. >>> >>> What do people (and specialy Sally) think? >>> >>> >> > > -- Matthew MacKenzie Yellow Dragon Software Corporation http://www.yellowdragonsoft.com/ m: +1 506.869.0175
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