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Jennifer,
In my experience, the only decent output from Docbook to Word is when you
use XFC to convert the FO to RTF. The RTF output on FOP is not at all pretty ;-)
However, if you use the personal version of XFC it stamps RenderX on the bottom
margin, so you really should purchase XFC so that does not happen.
Going from Word to Docbook without any restrictions is a bit harder.
Copy and Pasting is way too tedious. What I have done to help convert existing
Word docs to Docbook is to use Majix. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/majix/)
However, I had to modify it to output clean Docbook that is ready to convert.
You still have to go in and clean up some "FIX ME" spots, but it is much fast
than any other method I have seen - and less restrictive. I can make this
modified version available, since Majix has not been maintained for over 5
years.
Dean Nelson
In a message dated 9/24/2009 8:15:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
larry.rowland@hp.com writes:
That's
interesting. I tried it on Ubuntu Linux with OpenOffice 2.4.1 and
it
worked, opening my sample DocBook file as a word-processing document.
When I tried on my Windows XP system, with OO 2.3.1 (what was installed
there -- I don't use Windows very much and haven't kept it up to
date),
I had the same result as you did. Not sure if it is the
version, the
platform, or differences between the Windows and Linux
environments. I
had actually used OpenOffice to convert from MS Word
to DocBook (with a
bit of fixing up afterward, but still a lot faster than
cutting and
pasting between documents) and had noticed this feature
described while
I was researching how to do the conversions. I guess
I didn't test
enough before recommending it.
Trying to move from a
Word dominated environment to DocBook (or any real
structured environment)
is tough, and the round-trip problem is a big one.
Bob Stayton actually
worked on a set of transforms to go from DocBook to
WordML and back.
It is in the SourceForge stylesheets. Bob discusses
DocBook and
Microsoft Word on his excellent site at:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MSWord.html
The transforms
apparently support a subset of the DocBook elements. He
also
mentions some other
approaches.
Regards,
Larry
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Message-----
From: Jennifer Moore [mailto:jennifer@uncharted-worlds.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:24 AM
To: DocBook Apps
Subject:
Re: [docbook-apps] Pasting footnotes from DocBook-generated HTML into
OpenOffice
Thanks Larry & Markus.
That particular document
is finished now (with a bit of manual tweaking
at the end) - I was already
very close to the deadline when I wrote here.
But I'm still interested
"for future reference" in the possibilities.
Larry wrote:
>> I
am not sure which versions of DocBook and OpenOffice you are using
>>
or the platform you are working on, but OpenOffice can import some
>>
DocBook versions. You set the document type to DocBook in the
Open
>> dialog box and then open the XML file.
Tried
this. The Open dialog box did offer me DocBook, and it did open
the
XML file, but as XML! showing all the <para> tags and so on.
Is
there some other setting I need to use to make it behave as a
final-formatted document?
Jennifer
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