OOo has very primitive DocBook support. In fact, it uses DocBook 4.1.2
from eons ago. DocBook currently has been at DocBook 5 since the summer
of 2007, I believe.
I have produced DocBook 4.5 and DocBook 5 EDDs for Adobe FrameMaker,
although the DB 5 version is a very small bit incomplete because Norman
Walsh (original DocBook person) never completed the DocBook 5 DTD from
which a FrameMaker EDD file is created. DocBook 5 was the first to only
use a DTD XML source as being nonnormative, as a different normative
schema--RELAX NG--was first adopted starting with DocBook 5.
Gary
Nino Novak wrote:
On Friday 04 September 2009 13:46, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Nino Novak wrote:
A propos inconsistencies: Has there been a thought/discussion to
use DocBook as master for documentation?
I know that OOo is supposed to deal with DocBook files in some way,
but I've never understood how that works. Would love to learn more.
Can Writer create/edit DocBook files, as a front-end that ordinary
mortals can understand? I think that when documenting an office suite
with a word processor component, that one should use that word
processor component, not some other program.
I'm not an expert - to be honest I hoped to meet the experts here ;-)
but on the German community mailing list we had a discussion if it
makes sense to use the wiki for documentation at all - as this raises
the problem of double bookkeeping and of converting documents. A
possible solution would be to use a common Master. So my question
should have been: does it make sense to consider a general setting with
DocBook as master for all documents? I don't know if there are good
docbook->odt or docbook->wiki filters but from theory this seems more
straightforward than odt->wiki and vice versa.
BTW - I don't see any problems in using specialized tools for special
goals, think of the issue tracker, pootle, Plone etc. The word
processor serves for creating nice documents, the question addressed
here is more to generate different output formats from the same content
source.
Nino
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