MS Word seems to me to be as bad a solution to DocBook Editing as
FrontPage was to HTML editing.
I spent some time looking into OpenOffice for DocBook, and it didn't
seem much better (although this
was a year ago).
It also seems to me a bad idea to try to use a WYSIWYG editor for any
markup language.
That's not to say there are not good editors for DocBook. I use
Eclipse; the current version has
great support for DocBook. It does live validation, tag matching and
completion, and has an excellent
outline feature. It's open source, free, and runs on all platforms,
which makes it my choice over XML-Spy.
On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Ned Horning wrote:
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Does anybody have any experience in using MS Word as a DocBook
editor?
Does it work?
Is it easy or hard to set up?
Is it easy or hard to use?
I don't have experience with MS Word but I have been looking into
using OpenOffice (an open source package not all that different
from MS Word). OpenOffice has some built-in support for DocBook but
from what I can tell it's a bit clunky and it does not support the
latest DocBook 5.0 standard as far as I can tell. It would be god
to get input from others on this list but from my very limited
experience in this area it doesn't seem like MS Word and OpenOffice
Writer are well suited to write DocBook files unless you can limit
yourself to a restricted set of styles using a template.
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