Hi all,
I'm looking to use OpenOffice Writer as a temporary editor for DocBook
documents. Basically, I need to allow certain people to edit DocBook
documents who have never worked with markup languages before, but are
familiar with OpenOffice.
I've played around with OpenOffice's built-in
Hi Colin,
I'm currently working on the DocBook round-tripping system. The aim
is to allow exactly what you are looking for: use a word processor as
a front-end editor for DocBook. It has stylesheets to convert from
DocBook to a word processing format, and another set of stylesheets
Steve,
That's exactly what I am looking for. Unfortunately, this is something I
need to start doing in the immediate future, so I need to come up with a
basic working solution pretty soon.
I really only need to utilize a few of the DocBook elements right now
(pretty much just para, section,
... At the moment MS Word 2003 and Apple Pages are supported.
Is the book root element currently supported; most interested for a US
Federal agency.
Ray
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Hi Ray,
Yes they should support the book root element. If not, that's a bug
and please report it.
At the very least, article, book and chapter are supported. The new
stylesheets that I am currently working will support appendix,
preface and all other toplevel elements.
Cheers,
Steve
Ian,
Has any one thought about/ done anything about a docbook/XML to the
OpenOffice OfficeDocument XML transformation (i.e. a conversion to
OpenOffice/Star Office file formats, in the same way as we have a
conversion to RTF).
Might be quite an interesting project
It *does* sound
Has any one thought about/ done anything about a docbook/XML to the
OpenOffice OfficeDocument XML transformation (i.e. a conversion to
OpenOffice/Star Office file formats, in the same way as we have a
conversion to RTF).
Might be quite an interesting project