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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] CSS based docbook editor
As a Word conversion tool, we use a modified version of Majix (http://sourceforge.net/projects/majix/).
The code on the SourceForge site has not been maintained since 2004, hence the
modifications reside on my server and can be available to anyone who wants it. I
have not had the time to prepare a real release and the project administrators
have not returned my emails. (Email me if you are interested in the modified
version of Majix).
I have modified the Majix base code a bit to emit Docbook 4.5
XML that can be compiled without errors.
Since most Microsoft Word documents are not structured, there can be a bit
of cleanup to
do in the document. The conversion will create a "Docbook" file that can be compiled, and may look acceptable in the output, but may not be structured as you would like. Here are some issues that you may find: • The conversion will be a Docbook "section". You may have to relabel this if this is not appropriate. The section will have a "FIX ME" title and the real title may be a paragraph directly below the title. This can be an easy copy and paste. • Most images are converted to WMF format and deposited into the "images" directory. You can convert or replace these figures. The titles for the figures will be a "FIX ME" title. • ENTITY declarations will be placed in the XML headers. If these are not appropriate, you will have to modify the "entity*" declaration in the "Metriguard.tdef" file or manually edit them in the converted XML. • All tables will default to 20 columns. You will have to edit the number of columns and remove unnecessary colspecs. If there are any spans in the table, you will have to replace these manually. This is usually good enough for me to use for starting a Docbook XML
document. It usually doesn't take much time to clean up a document after
conversion and make it "production XML" .
Regards,
Dean Nelson
In a message dated 4/2/2010 11:45:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu writes:
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:51:05 +0200, Nathalie Sequeira <n@n-faktor.net> |
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