Just curious, what do these options get you that a LaTeX workflow lacks? I confess that any .tex direct to .html or .docx attempt I have ever made was less than successful. However, with proper macros/commands, it seems that it shouldn't be too tough to get something decent going.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Lea Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> 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. -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
