Ulf,
I did the last major overhaul (I think) of the
User's Guide. You are correct that the sources
are in DocBook SGML. At the time I last touched
them the DocBook XML processing chain (in
Debian at least) was a bit immature. This is no
longer the case. Converting to XML shouldn't
be terribly hard, someone probably even has
a script somewhere to do it.
As to WYSIWYG editors for docbook...
I don't know. I always editted docbook in
emacs and PSGML, and found it's WYGIWYW
(What you get is what you want) much more
comfortable than fighting a WYSIWYG editor.
Just my biases :)
Ed
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Hi list!
Tried to send the following mail to the doc mailing list, but got no
response till now.
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Hi List!
When looking at the archive of the doc mailing-list, no one seems to
be currently working on the user's guide.
That's a pity, as I've made a lot of changes to the GUI in the last
months, and the user's guide seems to
be in an state of "please immediatly update me" ;-)
I've downloaded the sources, but couldn't find an easy way to edit
these (the documentation for the documentation is quite worse ;-).
When I understand it correct, these are Docbook sources in SGML format.
This format seems to be a bit out of date, as I've googled around and
find for example the linux documentation project,
which is preferring Docbook with XML, see:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/docbookxml.html.
However, the differences between SGML and XML shouldn't be too high,
and a somewhat simple conversion should do the job.
When going to edit the book, I would like to have some WYSIWYG editor
for it, as this usually makes editing a *lot* faster, at least for me.
At http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/tools-edit.html
there are two favourites for me: AbiWord and OpenOffice, which are
both available
on Win32 and Linux.
Any suggestions how I can get started?
Regards, ULFL
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