I have an Oxygen 10.3 license and have tried both its DocBook and DITA capabilities; but I really hate the "Author" mode; too fiddly, it'd be easier to just write the markup imo. Perhaps this has improved in new versions of Oxygen.
But in all fairness, Oxygen excels at writing XSLT2 and RelaxNG. I found a REALLY nice DITA editing platform, except seems a little pricey to me: EasyDITA. I am not sure how they can say "$1000 a month" is affordable for the Lite version. On Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:12:51 PM UTC+1, Jon Kiparsky wrote: > > I haven't done anything very fancy with it, but if you want a wysiwyg > editor for DocBook, Oxygen is pretty good and reasonably priced, and the > support is very good. I've used it to generate small documentation sets, > and I like it. > As I say, though, I haven't really put it through its paces. > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:15:37 +0200, Lea Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Alex >>> >> >> After serious consideration this seems to be the easiest approach overall >>> (whilst a little extra initial preparation is required). Though at this >>> stage I am not committed to this approach, I am still in the experimental >>> phase really. I am looking for something with flexibility over visual >>> styles (which DocBook seems to lack), whilst maintaining good semantics, >>> whilst having both HTML and PDF output that are both consistent in style >>> and easy to use. And hopefully far easier to edit using WYSIWYG. Whilst I >>> do not mind manually typing XML elements around my text when writing XML >>> comments, I can see this becoming very tedious when writing large amounts >>> of technical documentation. >>> >> >> Many thanks for this. Actually I'm going on holidays and, among other >> things, I'd like to find a reasonable solution for the problem. I've >> written a few docbook code (with a Maven plugin which embeds source >> examples) but I'm tired of it because I didn't have a good experience with >> any of the available editors. In the meantime, my tiny CMS is now >> feature-ready and entering the beta stage, it runs all of my sites and it's >> based on HTML 5, which I appreciate and I think it should be enough for >> decent document writing. The idea is to have a unique platform for writing >> articles, embedding code samples, both for my blog posts and eventually >> being collected in book form. The missing point was conversion to PDF, >> which seems to be solved by the tool you pointed to. >> >> >> -- >> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager >> Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." >> [email protected] >> http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/FlrdPBOwtz4J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
