On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW: > > I build the handouts for my technical classes and other documentation using > a special kind of XML, and from that XML I generate HTML, if needed, or > other > representations of the documentation (at the moment I generate ONLY HTML > and do printed representations using a browser and a PDF generating > printer driver, which works pretty well). > I do something similar, for truly large documents. I use XMLMind XML Editor, which has a lower function, but cost free, "personal edition". I also might use LaTex or Kile. But, honestly, I don't do much that requires anything beyond simple use of LibreOffice's word processor. IMO, there is a definite difference between a word processor, document processor, and layout (like a magazine or newspape) processing. http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ <quote> XMLmind XML Editor is a strictly validating, near WYSIWYG, DocBook <http://docbook.org/> editor, DITA <http://dita.xml.org/> editor, MathML <http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/> editor, XHTML <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/> editor, XML <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/> editor. Because XMLmind XML Editor is highly extensible, it may be also be used to create documents conforming to your own custom schema. Its users are generally technical writers who need to author large, complex, modular, documents. </quote> I will now insert my whine about how "good enough" (MS Word) has basically driven out "excellent", at least for businesses. I've had others in my group basically say that if MS Word can't do it, then it just doesn't need to be done at all. And they don't even use MS Word "properly" (they just do ad-hoc paragraph and character formatting, instead of using any kind of "template" so that it is easy to change something, say font, in one place and have that affect the entire document appropriately. I finally gave up after I went though our D.R. documentation and "cleaned up" everything then had the next person _refuse_ to even consider keeping it up. I guess that I'm just out of touch with current reality. > > AFAIK, there are other "standard" XML formats to do such things, maybe one > is called BookDoc. > > Using XML, you can do any kind of markup you want. > > -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Maranatha! <>< John McKown
