Hi,
I've used lyx previously (very successfully, I may add - thanks!) in the past for creating LaTeX based output. I'm writing my thesis, and would ideally like the base document to use DocBook. I've have a brief experiment with the DocBook book class, though output was not ideal. I've looked at the db4lyx page and browsed the mailing list archives, but I still have a few questions remaining about DocBook features in 1.2.0 (which various places seem to suggest has better DocBook support). Any help, thoughts, or experiences are welcome. In particular, I'm interested in how successful I'll be with: - Multi chapter, section, sub section support. This seems to be in there and working fine (though my output wasn't aligned perfectly) - table of contents (seems to be working, though I guess this is directly constructed by the docbook toolset) - tables (again, seems to be good for simple tables) - Embedded figures and diagrams, with labels that can be referenced (as numbers) - bibliography and references. Preferably with a separate bibliography file, as with BibTeX database. Configurable style for bibliography output. - XML DocBook. The SGML output seems to be pretty well formed - it is also XML compliant now? As I said above, I've had a quick experiment with the DocBook book class in 1.2.0, and the PS output was, shall we say, not ideal. I tried to throw the SGML export at some docbook tools (I'm using RedHat 7.3 with its docbook packages installed), but they didn't like it. I'm unsure as to whether this is a problem with the tool chain. I'm open to any experiences - it may be that I'm best sticking with plain lyx/LaTeX, despite the obvious portability advantages of DocBook. (or maybe I should just get down to editing raw DocBook?!) Regards, kev -- Kevin R. Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/krp Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia University of Southampton, UK
