You can't save DOC files in DocBook because DOC files only describe what the document looks like, whereas DocBook describes the semantics of what the words mean.
What you /can/ do is to cut a few corners by using OpenOffice to export into an XML which you might transform into the beginnings of DocBook, then go in by hand and add the required markup. I've had some success exporting to HTML and starting from there towards creating DocBook. There are some excellent tips on how to do this in the Linux Documentation Project's authoring guide (www.tldp.org) The big danger is that once you introduce any sequence of strings that breaks the DTD, with such a large document, you might spend a lot of your time debugging XML rather than doing something productive. In the long run, it may even be more economical to use cut and paste and completely rebuild the document using LyX or some other DocBook-aware editing system. let this be a lesson to the DOC-heads out there: When you lock your files into a vendor format, you lock yourself into a vendor format ;) -- Gary Lawrence Murphy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - TeleDynamics Communications - blog: http://www.teledyn.com/mt/ - biz: http://teledyn.com/ - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Picasso) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
