On 8/12/2012 5:10 PM, Paul Taylor wrote:
On 12/08/2012 23:41, Richard Hamilton wrote:
There are a bunch of very good visual editors out there that will
handle DocBook. The one I know best is Oxygen
(http://www.oxygenxml.com/), which works very well with DocBook.
Goodness, this product is well overpriced
If you're looking at it as a DocBook word processor, sure. But oXygen
does quite a bit more than that. Check out the feature matrix:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/feature_matrix.html
oXygen Author is priced appropriately for what it is: a piece of a high
end publication system.
Not that I'm trying to arm-twist you into buying it. I, too, would be
happy to see a plain "word processor for DocBook."
That is, something without a lot of formatting power, which simply
happened to use .dbx to store its data. The main difference between
such a program and a "normal" word processor would flow from DocBook's
content vs. presentation separation: it would do a lot more to force you
toward styles rather than ad hoc formatting, and you wouldn't have the
option of things like free-floating layout frames. I think to get a low
price like you're looking for, you'd also have to give up on the ability
to edit stylesheets.
There's kind of a slippery slope here, the sort that caused the desktop
databases most PC users had in the 80s to disappear:
o People keep pushing the tool to do vastly more complicated things
than the tool was designed for.
o The developers add features to address the demand.
o The tool becomes too complicated for normals to understand so
demand from that quarter drops off.
o The developer raises the prices and shoots for the high end market.
What you get is a world where people believe Excel is a database, and
{insert favorite text editor here} is a DocBook editor.
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