Friday, July 7, 2006, 6:33:48 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> Daniel Dekany wrote: >> >> I said, neither A or B takes spacing="compact" into consideration. The >> only difference is that B uses vertical margin around listitems >> (always), while A (the current one) doesn't. Hence B resembles more to >> the typical final output (PDF, HTML, etc). So, as I said, there are >> two question here, and they are independent. So, what do you say for >> the first question, i.e. A VS B (again, neither cares about >> spacing="compact")? > > Sorry I didn't understand that. OK, neither A or B cares about > spacing="compact", but B resembles more to the typical final output. So? No time to review it? Well, add this listitem thing to the TODO. I don't think it will take more than a quarter of hour of one of you. [snip] >> BTW, you have mentioned earlier your competitor. May I ask who is that? > > Sure. Syntext Serna. See http://www.syntext.com/products/serna/. Note > that I never tested it. I did... I'm convinced that XXE is better. >> I did a research before choosing DocBook editor (including commercial >> ones), and I didn't find anything that was even near as good for the >> task as XXE. (However, I hadn't have chance to try ArborText's stuff, >> so I don't know about that... but however good it is, I suspect that's >> a very expensive software.) So I think you are in a good starting >> position on the XDocBook editor field. It appears to me that XDocBook >> is more and more dominant for project documentations (like for OSS >> projects, and you have an OSS friendly licence). These authors need a >> good XDocBook editor a lot... I can tell you that, because I have >> written many XDocBook software documentation. There is a vacuum here. >> So I don't think you head toward bankruptcy if you invest a bit into >> the DocBook thing, rather I think the opposite. > > Nowadays, every single XML Editor/Structured Authoring Tool is supposed > to support DocBook very well. I see no vacuum at all. Good for you! :) They supposed to support DocBook, but they are, well... It's like the best available WYSIWYG word processor would be WordPad (and not OO Write or MS Word). There is enormous space for improvements that serve a real demand. > However, to my knowledge, only > * Vex (Open Source -- See http://vex.sourceforge.net/) Hm... missed it somehow... will look at that. > * XMLmind XML Editor (free-to-use Standard Edition) > * May be in the future, Etna (Open Source -- See > http://rhaptos.org/downloads/editing/etna/0.3.1/) > are free to use. > (I've omitted ``non-styled'' editors. I've also ommited the now defunct > Morphon.) And Altova Auhentic... I have tried it, and XXE is still better. Same for a few other editors. -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
