On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Warren Young wrote:
Lou Iorio wrote:
It also seems to me a bad idea to try to use a WYSIWYG editor for
any markup language.
It's a bad idea to use general purpose tools for something
restrictive like DocBook, but it doesn't mean you can't make tools
that do work well. Take a look at LyX: http://www.lyx.org/
I will definitely take a look at lyx.
It works almost like a word processor, except that because it is a
GUI for LaTeX, it restricts you to only formatting that makes sense
in LaTeX. The problem with modern word processors is that they
have the ability to make completely free-form documents, which goes
against the DocBook Way. But when you write something like LyX,
which has a strict underlying data model, it changes the UI in ways
so it can't work exactly like a word processor.
I suspect it's a lot easier to write such a tool than a word
processor or HTML editor, because the restrictions in DocBook rule
out entire classes of formatting you don't have to worry about.
The only reason there are more word processors and HTML editors
than DocBook editors is due to the relative size of the markets for
those tools.
That's not to say there are not good editors for DocBook. I use
Eclipse <http://www.eclipse.org/>; the current version has
great support for DocBook.
I don't know that I'd call it "great". "Useful" at best. I was
unable to get it to cope with my ".dbx" files. Until I renamed
them to use .xml extensions, it didn't know what it do with them.
Go to Preferences->Editors->File Associations and add *.dbk. with the
same associated editors as *.xml.
I think there's one more Preferences setting to deal with, but I
don't remember what it is.
That, coupled with Eclipse's tunnel vision regarding workspaces, I
don't think I could recommend it as a general-purpose DocBook editor.
I don't use or understand workspaces or projects in Eclipse: I just
use it to edit individual files.
I recommend Eclipse as a general-purpose DocBook Editor.
If you already have a project in Eclipse and the DocBook file is
part of that project, I'm sure it works fine.
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