discuss: One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide (not exactly, but ...)
Subject:
Re: One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide (not exactly, but
...)
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
2 May 2003 18:25:44 -0000
Message-Id: <1051899438.20316.18.camel@mysticchild>
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 07:55, jdd wrote:
> I think that at a moment or an other (but surely not soon) anyboby will
> be able to write his HOWTOs inline on the ldp site and with full xml
> capabilities (not text wiki). may be when the lampada successor will be
> out there.
Someone I know is writing something like this using PHP and integrating
DocBook for creation of documents via a web page. Since he's got to
develop this for his work anyway, he's taking my suggestions so that he
can make it something the LDP would be interested in having.
My ideal would be to have an online editor that would allow the user to
choose from Linuxdoc or DocBook (I know there are issues with this but I
think that since they are both officially supported they should both be
made available). It ought to be smart enough to prompt for the type of
document and then insert the appropriate taggage on the user's behalf.
Then, working in an outline method, an author could first create the
chapter/section names, and then start inserting content, with
lists/menus of tags nearby for formatting the text. On the back end the
appropriate scripts would be in place to parse the document, confirm
it's validity, and process it into other formats. Version control could
be built-in, as could a management database to keep stats and info
regarding reviews.
Just a little dream I have! I imagine it will be built anyway, whether
the LDP uses it or not, but I sure hope it could be a tool that would
help authors who are not comfortable with any type of markup, or who
lack the tools (for whatever reason) to work in this manner.
Though I can't say when something like this would happen, maybe it's
incentive enough for other PHPers out there who are fluent in
DocBook/Linuxdoc to band together and see what can be created based on
this idea. I believe it would be an excellent resource for the LDP.
--
Tabatha Persad
Web: www.merlinmonroe.com
Linux Documentation Project Review Coordinator (http://www.tldp.org)
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