On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:14 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > > > >The tool I use is jEdit from http://www.jedit.org because it doesn't > > >need all that finicky setup and DTD rebuilding that emacs does; it > > >just works out-of-the-box. You still get syntax coloring, tag > > >completion, a context-sensitive tag display, and even spell checking > > >for your XML document. > > > > Anyone tried compiling this with GCJ. If that works it can pushed into > > Fedora Extras. The Free Java stack seems to be maturing now > > I looked at both jEdit and Conglomerate this morning for the first time. > Initial impressions are that both are very full featured. IMHO > Conglomerate has the edge for a few reasons: > > 1. Much smaller set of requirements (check "rpm -qR") > 2. More adherent to the set of common Fedora HIG (less cluttered > interface) > 3. Conglomerate is more of a WYSIWYM (*M="Mean") tool > > Conglomerate doesn't fix the PDF toolchain problem yet, but that's a > separate issue. It also uses the 4.1.2 DocBook/XML DTD by default, but > that may be a very minor issue -- and if not, adding 4.2 functionality > may make it such. It's plugin-extensible just as jEdit is, so that may > change Some Day. I'm not against jEdit in the least; it looks > fantastic. It's not a tool, though, for people who aren't into writing > code. Let's keep in mind that if we're trying to simplify life, that > doesn't mean changing one learning curve for another similar one. As I just said in another email, please file enhancement requests in bugzilla.gnome.org against Conglomerate; some of these are already in there IIRC. > > By all means, if someone wants to write pieces for the Documentation > Guide for either of these tools, please do so. As we mentioned in the > FDSCo meeting, the idea is to lower as many barriers as possible. > > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
