Many thanks for the answers. Unfortunately, nothing really fit my needs, so programming it'll have to be ...
In summary, the editors are helpful in visualizing doc structure and oXygen has the most features, while for docbook the specialized apps may be better. Amaya is no longer in gentoo (I recall it the editor of choice for MathML). After oXygen, I'd have liked xxe best, as it doesn't draw a rat tail of KDE, GNOME or wxWidgets dependencies but that's only because I have java handy. ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list