On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:49 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > 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: > > I retried conglomerate again this morning, too. It crashed on the very > first file I tried to open. Not ready for prime time, IMHO. I had only tried creating a few files, which seemed to work fine for the limited amount of time I ran it. I tried opening a few existing FDP docs, in particular the Documentation Guide, and got some very strange results. I don't know if the differing DTD was the cause, but I kind of doubt it. Eventually, yes, it crashed for me too. :-) But that doesn't change the gist of what I was saying, which is that simply telling a newbie to choose a different editor may not be the right answer. That still requires them to learn DocBook anyway, which takes much longer than learning the four or five Emacs keybindings that are the most useful for XML editing. Plus, if you require them to have Java/gcj, for instance, you've just *drastically* increased the workload on that person just to get set up to write, especially if they are not writing on a FC4 system, for example. Many people will use an older system for personal use. I think that, given its interface and program design, Conglomerate is going to end up -- at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later -- being the right tool for this job. But again, whatever tool experienced persons want to use, more power to them. It's all about getting the work done. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
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