Re: [regrep] Format for our documents

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

<Quote>
leaving the XML as a bunch of goop
</Quote>

That would be GoopML to some of us. ;)

Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
> 
> The OpenOffice format will likely embed all of the style information
> leaving the XML as a bunch of goop.  But hey...we can open it in Notepad.
> 
> DocBook is my suggestion, and I'll point out that many technical books
> are written in DocBook.  Those authors manage.
> 
> I don't want to argue this, just please take my suggestion (or leave
> it).  The virtues of DocBook are well documented.  A well structured
> document source tree, as evidenced in Norm Walsh's Docbook: The
> Definitive Guide actually reduces document complexity.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> 
> > Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > And not having a modern, state-of-the-art WYSIWYG editor for complex
> > documents scares the living day lights out of me. This to me is the
> > most important requirement out of the three I proposed.
> >
> >> Look at the W3C, what they are doing is working quite well, and they
> >> use an XML format.
> >
> >
> > And Open Office uses an XML format. One that is the basis for the Open
> > Office Format TC and their future standard.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> -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
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> 
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