Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I'm wondering why noone dared to mention Emacs+PSGML mode, especially the psgmlx package maintained by Mark Johnson. It makes setting up Emacs and PSGML a breeze. You just run the "test" shell script that's included, and everything is done for you. Besides, you get a lot of different color th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread klaas holwerda
Hi All, Thanks for all the very usefull responces, it will help me a lot to make the right choice. I believe there is just one question that poped up: What sort of documentation will you be producing? Many graphics involved, for the rest manuals for radar systems, templates for documents. I ho

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with dsssl and system identifiers

2001-08-21 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On the command line that runs OpenJade, you must include the xml.dcl file on the command line before the xml file. This is a frequent problem beginners encounter. You command line should look something like: openjade -t rtf /xml.dcl Hope this helps, Gershon On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Bob Stayton
I'll follow up on these XMetal leads and put together a little XMetal helper package for SourceForge. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread jaccoud
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RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Bradford, Denis
Apologies if this is not the best forum for this... I've been writing with Epic (and Adept SGML for several years before that). First, you are 100% right to worry about how your writers will react - resistance to markup from people who are used to word processors can be a serious obstacle. I don

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Bob Stayton wrote: > > > klaas holwerda wrote: > > > > -what is the best XML editor around that has some direct implementation > > XMetal doesn't come with DocBook support, but it isn't > hard to add. The DTD will work directly, or you can > compile it with their DTD compiler. The hardest > pa

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread madhu Maddy
Hello > > klaas holwerda wrote: > > > > -what is the best XML editor around that has some direct implementation > > I use XMetal from SoftQuad. It provides a graphical > You'll also need to set a few customization rules > so literallayout and program listings are recognized, > so their lines a

DOCBOOK-APPS: Problems with dsssl and system identifiers

2001-08-21 Thread ext-Kristina . Knaving
I write XML docbook, and when I try to use a system identifier, pointing to the dtd, and parse it with dsssl and Openjade, I get the following error messages: openjade:/home/knaving/docbook/dbpoolx.mod:735:34:E: omitted tag minimization pa rameter can be omitted only if "OMITTAG NO" is specified

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: htmlhelp.xsl and index

2001-08-21 Thread Jirka Kosek
"Bradford, Denis" wrote: > It should work, at least it works for me. Could you send me small > DocBook source reproducing error. I can check it on my setup and > investigate cause of problems. > > > Sure thing. I've created and attached a simple XML file that reproduces the > > problem, and a scr

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Cover Art

2001-08-21 Thread Bob Stayton
> From: Michael Cortez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am having difficulty in getting Cover Art to show up on documents rendered > via XSL for HTML or PDF... > > I took a look at the source XML for "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" and saw > that the title image was placed in the section -- that is wh

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Jirka Kosek
Bob Stayton wrote: > very much want to avoid). I'd be willing to > share what I've got. I think SoftQuad is missing the boat That would be great! I have never had enough will to create some reasonable CSS for XMetaL by myself. May be we can create new module in CVS and put some customization f

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread martin . gautier
Klaas What sort of documentation will you be producing? Myrnham Associates have a great product for Courseware authors that produces Docbook XML with practically no requirement for knowledge of the DTD and it's free! There's a product for customising content and parsing to Word files too. http

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Bob Stayton
> klaas holwerda wrote: > > -what is the best XML editor around that has some direct implementation I use XMetal from SoftQuad. It provides a graphical interface with text formatted for the screen, so it is similar to using a word processor (and similar to ArborText). It runs only under Window

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: best tool for docbook?

2001-08-21 Thread Jirka Kosek
klaas holwerda wrote: > -what is the best XML editor around that has some direct implementation > for (XML) docbook with it. Probably Epic from ArborText. > -the cost is not so important (anything we have to add our selfs will be > more expensive in hours). Oh, you probably don't know, how exp