(My previous post too fast and far too useless, sorry)
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:45:50PM +0100 - a wonderful day -
Gour wrote:
Corey Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am considering using DocBook to create a Manual of
Procedures. Ideally I'd like to do so in an environment
that is easy for those who are unfamiliar with programming
and mark up to understand. Currently I am trying to use
XMLSPY. If someone has attempted this before ...
Editing the sample DocBook instances in xmlspy (a c++-driven
parser/gui if i remember that correctly) makes my w2k
governed 800 MHz AMD Duron with 256 MB Memory become very
ssslllow. So I guess a 1000 pages Manual
of Procedures with a lot of figures and indexes etc.
might make the experience of pure content editing in
the so called authentic view a bit unsatisfactory.
And what about epcEdit (www.epcedit.com)?
Hm, ok I tried out of curiosity ...
Very capable, multi-platform, non-Java (performance)
... did You actually try it? It's a tcl script using
wish and the tksmgl-lib. So performance on my machine
linux 2.4 256 MB Mem, PIII-450 was not really that visible,
ok for a tcl/tk script.
and the new version will have some very nice goodies.
I tested version 1.2.4 by the way, the new one as of today.
There are three sample DocBook files as of v4.1.2 included,
but there are only 2 views offered: Text and Layout.
- If you enter Text-View, a tip-of-the-day window pops up
and asks you to better only use text-view, in case layout-view
does not really work (like no template for visualizing etc.)
- Layout is a markup-dominated view like
___ __
| \ / |
|title A Title between some funny Limiters title|
| /\ |
--|
(In fixed spacing fonts you get the idea) This view is probably
not what someone unfamiliar with programming and mark up
wants to work in.
Tools like xmlspy offer (in version 5+) on windows plattform
so called authentic views on docbook instances that seems
to be more adequate for the casual Manual of Procedures
user.
Both have a tabular view in which especially tables are
quite nice to edit.
HTH and
All the best,
s t e f a n.
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