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Subject: Re: [regrep] Format for our documents
I think that you should use DocBook. I hear it too is an OASIS spec :-) Relying on WYSIWYG for complex technical documents scares me a little bit, but that is just me. Look at the W3C, what they are doing is working quite well, and they use an XML format. -Matt Farrukh Najmi wrote: > Changed subject title to protect the innocent... > > >> Farrukh Najmi wrote: >> >>> >>> BTW I like the idea of having HTML version of specs available >>> online. I propose we do this for our specs as well. Any objections? >> >> > > > Duane Nickull wrote: > >> Docbook? > > > Actually all I was thinking is to save the document as HTML. This is a > cheap and mindless act. > > The current spec source in in Word. It has several problems due to > limitations in Word for large documents. Longer term I would like to > move away from Word. I was thinking of Open Office which is the basis > for the Open Office Format TC: > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office > > Important criterea for choice of formats are: > > -Open format (ideally XML) > > -WYSIWYG Editors that are useable and reliable > > -Ideally freely available software > > Open Office meets each of the above requirements. Software is freely > available from: > > http://www.openoffice.org > > Also since it can open Word formats migration from Word to Open Office > would be relatively painless. > > What do people (and specialy Sally) think? > > -- Matthew MacKenzie Yellow Dragon Software Corporation http://www.yellowdragonsoft.com/ m: +1 506.869.0175
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