Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Ball
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

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Colin Shapiro
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,

RE: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Miller, Ray \(Centech\)
... 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 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Ball
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

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook to OpenOffice OfficeDocumenttransformation?

2001-10-30 Thread Dan York
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