Hi Frank, On 29 Jul 2020, at 14:59, Frank Steimke <f-stei...@berger-und-steimke.de> wrote:
> i think we have something similar. We use a DocBook base solution for > contracts with our partners. In short: Thank you for that detailed summary. It's very helpful to know that others are already doing the kind of thing I was envisaging. > The only drawback is the process of negotiation of contracts, since DocBook > stylesheets in the standard Distribution can produce HTML or PDF, but our > Partner would like to have editable Documents in MS Word. We have tested > three solutions: > > Ask them to edit structured Documents (DocBook customization for contracts): > No way. They are all IT-professionals, but working with a Document on a > computer means MS Word and nothing else to them > Poor mans generation of MS-Word: use standard stylesheet to generate HTML, > Use the HTML import mechanism of MS Word to greate .docx. Works for most > DocBook Elements. Exceptions are Footnotes, Table column width, wrong ratio > in images and so on > Transformation from DocBook to Open Document Format (ODF 1.2): This is > possible, because we have a restricted set of DocBook Elements. That's an interesting additional problem that hopefully I can avoid! -- Paul Hoadley https://logicsquad.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/
