On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:31:37PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> > > I would quite like, personally, a LyX-like program which is a more generic
> > > 'structured' document editor. Probably an XML editor, with the ability to
> > > backend onto LaTeX, but also other formats. If I have time, I may have a
> > > look at that problem.
>
> As Allan said there are already several steps in that direction in
> the docbook support. There are several abstractions that would allow
> to make another backend really easy. One example, if anyone has the
> time or the energy to do it is a native html backend...
Yuck. What an unpleasant idea ;-) Hmm... uh.. depends what you mean by
backend, I guess. Certainly, native editing of HTML documents is, IMO, a
feature of only slight usefulness - HTML is a horrible format. However,
editing in a SGML/XML designed for the purpose and then exporting to HTML
would be cool.
>
> > It will probably be some time before we get a generalised XML/SGML
> > editting mode as there are a number of issues related to document
> > hierarchy and syntax that we are working through as our support for
> > Docbook improves -- changes/extensions of .layout information. The
> > changes required for better Docbook support also benefit the LaTeX
> > support.
>
> Something that I'm waiting for are better insets, more generalized, because that's
> something that docbook support needs, because eventually everything there is
> an inset.
>
> I think that we also need a way to change a document from latex to
> docbook and convert the document structure from one to the other, and
> vice versa. That mechanism doesn't exist now.
Tricky though, isn't it. I guess there are enough similarities between
article.cls and docbook that it could probably be done for articles and
related classes. A very hard problem in general, though.
Jules
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