discuss: Please advise on doc formats and tools
Subject:
Re: Please advise on doc formats and tools
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
30 Apr 2002 21:57:11 -0000
Message-Id: <20020430224843.GB3825@lupercalia.net>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:25:09PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:41:28AM +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> > * lyx provides a free WYSIWYM editor for linux but I can't find a free
> > WYSIWYM editor for windows.
>
> LyX can also run on Windows via cygwin. I realise this isn't ideal, but
> something to bear in mind.
>
> The major problem with using LyX right now is that it only supports
> DocBook/SGML and I have found the SGML tools to be not as good as the
> related XML tools. Of course, an eventual conversion from DocBook/SGML
> to DocBook/XML is not hard.
Also, I plan to do automatic DocBook SGML -> DocBook XML translation
in Lampadas, via a standalone script. I'll make that available on its
own of course. So don't feel like you're ever locked into SGML. It
isn't really that different from XML. Even doing it manually is not
very hard.
Regards,
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