[H-GEN] Software Freedom Day (new thread)
Russell Stuart
russell at humbug.org.au
Thu Sep 8 18:01:08 EDT 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:17, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Once you get used to the new paradigm it is superior IMHO. It is
> graphical but not WYSIWYG because the paradigm trancends WYSIWYG. I've
> found many non-techs see the advantages right away and go ahead and use
> it. It can easily output pdf too which is great. All of our business
> docs are produced in Lyx (we output pdf). I only use OO when someone
> sends me an OO or MS-Word doc and (in the case of MS-Word) it is beyond
> the capability of antiword.
I think this question has come up before, but I will
ask it again. Is there something out there like lyx
that outputs XML with a nice DTD, preferably docbook?
What brought me in contact with docbook was a Debian
package that didn't ship the manual. I thought I
would fix it. It turned out that manual's sources
were docbook, and the <!DOCTYPE ../> for the manual
was docbook 4.4. Debian sarge ships with docbook
style sheets up to 4.3 - so it wouldn't compile.
Changing the <!DOCTYPE in the original document to
use a docbook 4.3 style sheets worked fine. But
changing the original source like that is nasty,
so I thought I would go looking for a switch to
the compiler (openjade) that overrode the <!DOCTYPE
entry in the document. But I could not find one.
Is there such a thing?
In my quest for looking for such a switch I trolled
the web for information about docbook. Although I
didn't find what was looking for, in the process I
learned enough about docbook to decide it was worth
pursuing further on my next documentation project.
Thus the question above.
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