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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XMLSPY and DocBook
(My previous post too fast and far too useless, sorry) On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:45:50PM +0100 - a wonderful day - Gour wrote: > Corey Arnold (corey@wubios.wustl.edu) wrote: > > I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of > > Procedures. Ideally I'd like to do so in an environment > > that is easy for those who are unfamiliar with programming > > and mark up to understand. Currently I am trying to use > > XMLSPY. If someone has attempted this before ... Editing the sample DocBook instances in xmlspy (a c++-driven parser/gui if i remember that correctly) makes my w2k governed 800 MHz AMD Duron with 256 MB Memory become very ssslllllllooooow. So I guess a 1000 pages Manual of Procedures with a lot of figures and indexes etc. might make the experience of pure content editing in the so called "authentic view" a bit unsatisfactory. > And what about epcEdit (www.epcedit.com)? Hm, ok I tried out of curiosity ... > Very capable, multi-platform, non-Java (performance) ... did You actually try it? It's a tcl script using wish and the tksmgl-lib. So performance on my machine linux 2.4 256 MB Mem, PIII-450 was not really that visible, ok for a tcl/tk script. > and the new version will have some very nice goodies. I tested version 1.2.4 by the way, the new one as of today. There are three sample DocBook files as of v4.1.2 included, but there are only 2 views offered: Text and Layout. - If you enter Text-View, a tip-of-the-day window pops up and asks you to better only use text-view, in case layout-view does not really work (like no template for visualizing etc.) - Layout is a markup-dominated view like ___________ __________ | \ / | |title >A Title between some funny Limiters< title | | / \ | ------------ ----------| (In fixed spacing fonts you get the idea) This view is probably not what someone "unfamiliar with programming and mark up" wants to work in. Tools like xmlspy offer (in version 5+) on windows plattform so called "authentic views" on docbook instances that seems to be more adequate for the casual "Manual of Procedures" user. Both have a tabular view in which especially tables are quite nice to edit. HTH and All the best, s t e f a n. -- Stefan Drees, sdrees@acm.org. Fingerprint = 516C C4EF 712A B26F 15C9 C7B7 5651 6964 D508 1B56
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