On Nov 7, 2007 4:59 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 08:52 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I am writing on behalf of my fellow content authors at Red Hat Asia > > Pacific. We are curious to know what tools everyone is using for > > writing, including editors, research tools, diagram tools, graphic > > tools, and so on. This is sort of a survey, and we are always keen to > > try out new tools/ways of doing things if they will improve on what we > > currently use. > > > > <snip> To quote Paul: > I use Emacs for writing and editing, although I truly wish someone had > time or personnel to invest in better XSLT/styling for OpenOffice.org, > so habitual GUI users could write a document in a Writer template > then convert it to DocBook XML without a lot of retagging needed later. > +1 on OOo Writer as a DocBook XML editor - I have looked at quite a few editors for GNOME and KDE that purport to do DocBook XML. Surely there are other people out there who can see the value of this. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/WorkFlowIdeas/PrintView. Meanwhile, I use whatever editor I can get my hands on in Linux (or when absolutely unavoidable) in Windows XP. > I like Inkscape a LOT for drawing and diagramming, especially since SVGs > are XML and can be embedded easily in DocBook AIUI. > I also am excited about the potential of SVG for diagrams with translatable embedded text. John Babich Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project "FOSS Docs the FOSS Way!" -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
