Hi Gavin, Thanks for these questions, my answers inline below.
Gavin Maltby wrote: > Michelle Olson wrote: > >> Why can't you access tools? It is just XML, you can use any tools you >> want. > > I accept that we can edit XML with any old editor (I prefer > 'cat > file' myself, and simply repeat material I'm not > changing) but presumably a "real" typesetting package is > normally used and it simply saves in this XML format? No, we actually author in SolBook XML ( I should have stated this more clearly above) and then we process to HTML and PDF. So, typesetting is completely separate from the XML formatting. This is good because we can all use same formatting standard, and typeset independently depending on our various goals. > Is that format understood by anything like OpenOffice/StarOffice > or is it specific to a product that users would have to part > with cash for? You can think of OpenOffice as more of a word processor than an editor. SolBook XML is understood by any free XML editor and isn't tied to a proprietary editor. So, one could use vi, emacs, NetBeans, etc. with the SolBook XML DTD to edit files and then just validate the files with xmllint that comes with Solaris. Using XML FO or xsltproc with freely available style sheets, one can then process valid files to PDF and HTML. Here are instructions for doing so: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_collab/templates/ The ultimate goal is to have a doctools package that puts all of this into one place, so you just slurp it down, edit files, run a couple commands and publish. Thanks, Michelle > > Cheers > > Gavin
