[pooma-dev] docbook overview

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "James" == James Crotinger <JimC at proximation.com> writes:

    James> the biggest emacs user here. But I want a WYSIWYG authoring
    James> tool for whatever we're doing. 

Hmm.  There *are* free DocBook WYSIWYG editors but I don't know how
well they work.  One example is `www.conglomerate.org'.  Also
`epcEdit' is not WYSIWYG -- but is specially designed to work with
SGML.

Also, there are commercial DocBook editors that what a lot of the
publishing people are using now.  For example, Arbortext's `Epic' or
Adobe's `FrameMaker'.  There's also something called XMetaL.  These
are all WYSIWYG.  These tools are all priced around $750.

It would be nice if DocBook tools were two years further along.  But,
this is the format we want -- it's a good way of producing web docs,
print docs, and even man pages, in a reliable way, and just about
everyone is using it.  If we don't do this, then we'll end up
converting two years hence, and that's a complete pain in the neck.

In fairness, since Allan has the job of writing most of the
documentation, and since he's happy in Emacs, shouldn't we let him use
what he likes, especially when it's the forward-looking technology
that the industry seems to be standardizing on?

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