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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Tools for DocBook authoring by non-hackers
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:22:29PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > 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.) In the company, we are using XXE (XMLmind XML editor) under Windows XP and NT. It is a Java application that runs also under Linux (Debian) w/o problems. Most people were using MS-Word and QuickSilver before and were able to use XXE. Of course, working with highly structured, semantic formats such as DocBook/XML is totally different from working with unstructered chaos, like word processors. People have to learn the difference first, otherwise they may get frustrated. > I have an upcoming Word->DocBook conversion project in which one of I don't believe, that Word->DocBook or OpenOffice->DocBook will ever work. Please prove me wrong. > 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 That's the way we do it, too. People edit their DocBook/XML documents with XXE under Windows or Linux or they use Emacs+nxml or Emacs+psgml or whatever they like. Transforming to CHM or HTML or PDF happens on a dedicated server. We are not using FO, so I cannot answer about that. Cheers, -- W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org>
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