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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Linux Weekly News: A quick look at Conglomerate0.70
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Steinar Bang wrote: > The Achilles heel of DocBook when "selling" it as a MSWord > replacement, has been the lack of an acceptable editor. I myself use > Emacs+PSGML, and am happy with that. But I have no problem seeing > that it's not for everyone. i know i've mentioned this before, but i'm pretty satisfied with having defined a pre-docbook grammar i call "pidgin" docbook. i type directly in pidgin DB, and the first phase of generating the final output is to transform that with a fairly trivial stylesheet to real docbook. as an example of the brevity, here's an example: <s><t>Questions for discussion</t> <ol> <e>How could you summarize the disk usage (in kilobytes) just for the students in this class, ignoring all other users on the host?<sp2/> </e> <e>How could you (without actually doing it) <ol> <e>compress all regular files in the current directory?<sp1/></e> <e>compress all files recursively in your <fn>bin</fn> directory?<sp1/></e> </ol> </e> </ol> </s> it should be easy to see the abbreviations for things like section, title, orderedlist and so on. i also defined multi-element shortcuts to save even more time, so that <e> == <li><p>. it doesn't take long to get used to typing this way, although i'm well aware that, when it comes to selling into the enterprise, this wouldn't be a good selling tool. :-) rday
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