Hi Craig, welcome to DocBook! :-)
On Samstag, 21. April 2007, Craig White wrote: > [...] > > The objective: > We have approximately 600 page 'manual' consisting of mostly static > text, some forms and a small amount of graphics. These are mostly in > individual Microsoft Word documents (ugh!) > Final formats would likely > be html (for most usage including filling out forms) The DocBook XSL stylesheet can create this and even more. > and PDF (for printing hard copies). ... this too. You create an intermediate format (XSL-FO) first and convert this into PDF with a XSL-FO formatter. There are open source (FOP, xmlroff) and commercial (XEP, AntennaHouse, ...) formatters available. > My platform is primarily Linux and my thinking > is that I will probably use subversion for this project. That's a very good idea! I use Subversion for my own project too and I can't live without it. ;) > 1. I have looked at the web pages for several programs but the ones > that seem to be of interest are Oxygen and Serna. Oxygen seems to have > more features and Serna seems to be WYSIWYG. Recommendations? I use oXygen and I like it. It has a lot of good features. > 2. If I am starting now, should I just go to Docbook 5 and relaxng? Hmn, I think for the first time you should go for DocBook 4.5. If you get used to it and need additonal functionality you can still switch to DocBook 5. There is a stylesheet that can convert version 4 documents into version 5. Apart from the namespace and additional elements and attributes DocBook 5 is pretty the same as DocBook 4. > [...] Best wishes, Tom -- Thomas Schraitle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
