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Subject: "WYSIWYG Writer" Friendly Editing Tools
- From: "Johnson, Eric" <Eric.Johnson@iona.com>
- To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:51:54 -0500
One of the issues
facing the writing group with which I work is finding tools that are "WYSIWYG
writer" friendly so that the majority of writers in the group don't immediately
give up on writing documentation in XML because "it looks ugly", "I don't know
what it will look like when I'm done", "it looks too much like code", "there is
no support for automatically keeping track of cross reference anchors", and so
on. There is a long history of Frame Maker use in the group and an ongoing
effort to make Frame Maker, using a template that looks and feels exactly like
our old unstructured Frame Maker template, edit Docbook XML. The effort to make
Frame Maker work as a Docbook editor has gotten close, but there are a
number of things it just cannot handle yet and I'd much rather spend my time,
and that of the other writers, getting comfortable with a lighter weight tool
that actually is built for working with XML.
Does anybody have
suggestions for either an XML editor that is close to WYSIWYG and supports text
entities? XXE does a great job with WYSIWYG, but does not support text
entities.
Suggestions about
how to break the dependency on WYSIWIG would also be greatly
appreciated.
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