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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Tools for DocBook authoring by non-hackers
At 07:52 14/01/2004, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: >Hello, > >I am interested to know what (Microsoft Windows-based) tools people >are using to allow non-hackers to author DocBook documents. (By >non-hackers, I mean people who almost certainly have never used a >command line, and whose document authoring experience is probably >limited to Microsoft Word.) Hi Paul. http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookAuthoringTools may help. I'm guessing you mean hand editing type authoring? >I have an upcoming Word->DocBook conversion project in which one of >the requirements will almost certainly be that my involvement is a >one-off, and I will need to leave an environment (probably just on a >single machine) where new documents can be authored, and the various >output formats can be generated, by office staff whose computing >skills are probably limited to Microsoft applications. Training will >be possible, and there's not necessarily a requirement that the >application be completely hand-holding and WYSIWYG, but the command >lines and Makefiles that we are all comfortable with will be out of >the question, as will editing raw XML. Word to docbook I'd suggest Upcast, but again the wiki http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookTools To hide your command line stuff, look out for utility software that builds the commands and presents it all via a gui? >The solution does not need to be free, but it needs to be robust. I >have a personal preference for XEP as the FO renderer, though if >people are successfully using some other more integrated solution, I >am willing to look at anything. For a one off, XEP. Antenna House is sort of expensive. Fop and the java setup could produce problems if the docbook is anything like complex? HTH DaveP
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