Hello,
Den 12. okt. 2006 kl. 12.11 skrev Markus Flach:
hi there
can somebody tell me with is the best way to create documents for
to publish
with forrest.
at the moment i'm creating my documents with openoffice and than i
save them
as DocBook XML.
and so i implement those documents in my forrest navigation.
is there an other way i can do, i just wann know some common ways
to create
content for Forrest.
regards
markus
I would like to know how does a forrest enviroment look.
Which is a a good prgramm to create documents to publish after with
forrest.
Your Forrest environment can be anything you like, as long as it can
produce a format supported by Forrest or one of its input plugins:-)
If your main task is to write documentation using Forrest's own
DTD's, then I would suggest using XMLMind XML Editor
(www.xmlmind.com) in combination with the Forrest config for XXE
(available from the Forrest site). This will allow you to easily edit
and write XML documents that adhere to either the Forrest 1.x DTDs or
the 2.0 DTD, you will get DTD-supported validation and insert guides,
you will get a styled text-view (similar to what you see in a word
processor) but with all the underlying XML structure in place.
I use this combo myself when I'm writing lengthier documents. For
short documents I just write the raw XML, as Cyriaque suggests in his
reply.
NOTE: XMLMind XML Editor has in one of its recent upgrades introduced
new features that break some backwards compatibility with the Forrest
XXE config. This means that you get an error message at startup. The
error message can be ignored, just press OK. Everything but the table
menu works as it should. I'll try to get around creating a patch for
the plugin soon - but no promise;-) You are as well free to submit
patches, if you manage to fix it:-)
Best regards,
Sjur
