Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?
Klaas

What sort of documentation will you be producing?

Myrnham Associates have a great product for Courseware authors that produces Docbook XML with practically no requirement for knowledge of the DTD and it's free!

There's a product for customising content and parsing to Word files too.

http://www.myrnham.co.uk/

For other types of documentation to be produced by users with a minimal knowledge of Docbook, XMetal is pretty good. I seem to remember reading that there's a customisation layer available specifically for Docbook. I think I read it on http://www.xml.com

Mart

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Martin Gautier

Myrnham Associates

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Hi,

I always use a standard text editor (scintilla or nedit) with only XML

tag highlighting.

But this is not the solution for the Authors in my company, the step

would be to big!

They at least need some presentation of what they type in, and some

guidance with the tags.

Especially tables, pictures, list  and such need to be handled in an

easy manner.

Introducing SGML/XML and DocBook is a revolution, so i better do it

right,

else they will refuce.

So i tried FrameMaker Sgml and the docbook stuff coming with it.

Not realy bad, but not so good either, and it is SGML, and it is for an

old docbook dtd.

So the question:

-what is the best XML editor around that has some direct implementation

for (XML) docbook with it.

-the cost is not so important (anything we have to add our selfs will be

more expensive in hours).

-if there is not an XML editor around with a docbook understanding,

still what is the best one to choose for that.

-what are you people using (or better the authors in general).

Any other suggestions on how to make Knowno's (Know Nothing) work with

docbook,

would be appreciated much.

Klaas

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