On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:47:31AM +0200, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > XXE is a nice DocBook editor. I switched from 2.6 to 2.11 and I found
> > many improvements, but there are still some features that I miss:
> Sorry but there is a misunderstanding. XXE is not a DocBook editor. It
> just happens to be bundled with a usable configuration for DocBook.
I know, but it happens to be the best DocBook editor that I found, and
that is all I use it for, so I am a bit "biased" :)
> > * a lower priced student edition. Students like me cannot efford current
> > XXE prices.
>
> We already offer a free, non-crippled, Standard Edition with a free
> support to everyone. We cannot afford giving more than this.
An educational non-commercial version for $30 or $40 that removes this
clause
"In practice, this means that Standard Edition can be used to edit
* W3C XML Schemas,
* RELAX NG schemas,
* XHTML and DocBook documents conforming to schema rather than to a DTD,
XXE configuration files and XXE demos."
and permits the use of the FO is what I was looking for.
> If you want to be offered a ``lifetime'' Professional Edition license,
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/translatexxe/index.html
It is interesting, I'll see if the number of strings is low enough :)
> > * the default save dir should be $HOME and not $INSTALLDIR
> The default save directory, of course, happens to be $INSTALLDIR/demo/
> after the first install of XXE on a computer.
>
> We do not intend to change this behavior.
At least you should check for writability of the default save dir. I
installed xxe with gentoo and the default install dir (/opt/xxe) is not
writable by a normal user. But this is a very minor issue.
> > * XXE should get the DPI value from X11/xdpyinfo
>
> XXE ``gets its DPI'' from the Java runtime. We are not supposed to even
So it is a fault of the IBM JRE... I'll report the bug.
> > * auto open the tree view
>
> Already implemented in V3. In fact, you can automatically open a ``tab''
Nice to hear this.
> > * desc + search = a very pleasant way to discover DocBook or avoid to
> > pick up the ref book if you forgot the difference between simplelist
> No offense intended, but we are clearly not interested in being the best
> DocBook editor in the world.
You're missing an opportunity, the DocBook editors market is looking for
a leader. A google search for "docbook editor" shows XXE as the first
result (this is how I found XXE).
> (May be we'll develop this new "DocBook Reference" pane ourselves just
> to show how easy it is to develop such tool and how easy it is to
> integrate it in XXE V3.)
Great. It seems that XXE 3 is going to be a nice DocBook editor, even if
this is going to happen by accident :)
--
Gioele Barabucci <barabucc at cs.unibo.it>
) http://cs.unibo.it/~barabucc
