DocBook is very powerful, and I recommend its use by the Jetspeed Community. Docbook format allows for easy conversion to HTML, PDF, etc... It is definitely gaining popularity.
Rumor has it that all O'Reilly books are now written in DocBook format.
Sorry, but I don't have an easy conversion from MS Word. I think most people save the MS Word doc as text, and than manually (yuck) add tags.
I have heard of the use of "abiword", but this can supply its own troubles. A search on Google of "word to docbook" pops up some ideas.
My 2 cents,
Glen
Timothy Fisher wrote:
What software do you need to read the DocBook format? If its not readable by Word or Acrobat, I would suggest instead placing it in a format that is easily read by most people, such as Word or Acrobat (pdf).-----Original Message----- From: David Sean Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:23 PM To: Jetspeed Developers List Subject: The Tutorial I was talking with Paul last night, and he asked me if I had any plans to put the tutorial document on the jakarta site. After giving some thought, I decided it would be best to do so. That way everyone can contribute the tutorial. The document is currently written in Microsoft Word, you know that word processor that crashes all the time right before you save your work. Before moving it to Jakarta, I'd like to convert the document over to Docbook format. Has anyone ever converted a Word document to docbook? Do you think that Docbook is a good format. I'd personally like to get some experience writing to it. I started writing a book with Docbook once before, and I liked it. The JPortal project could also be moved into the jakarta cvs. However I really wanted to emphasize that it is a separate project, and for it to emulate a real life project being housed outside of the jetspeed cvs. For the JPortal example source, I propose a subproject of Jetspeed, jakarta-jetspeed-jportal, which is a different cvs. David
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