On 11/18/2013 04:53 PM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 01:39:34PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > I would consider LibreOffice. We could have a master document and > pre-assign the chapters. With markup and ability to work offline while > commuting, it or a similar product would be beneficial for smaller > docs or even for collaboration. > > With the exception of your suggestion of LibreOffice the rest is > exactly what we do right now. I see the biggest problem is creating > source. Most(?) contributors would either use vi(m) or emacs (or > similar) to create the source. There are other options as well, > however. gedit would be one of those programs that would work quite > well as a GUI text editor. LibreOffice Writer seems a bit heavy for > writing source, though. > > I just did a quick check and it appears that LibreOffice Writer *can* > save in the DocBookXML format although it's rendering is lacking. I'm > not sure it can truly support DocBookXML. Pasting source into Writer > and then saved as DocBookXML came out badly. Working with something > that isn't trying to do so much for you is better for writing code. > > -- Eric > > -------------------------------------------------- > Eric "Sparks" Christensen > Fedora Project > > sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - sparks@xxxxxxxxxx > 097C 82C3 52DF C64A 50C2 E3A3 8076 ABDE 024B B3D1 > -------------------------------------------------- Of course, that doesn't mean that we can't accept content that isn't marked up in a given file format. If someone wants to take the time to write an article, but they're only willing to email it to the list in .odf, fine. I might be willing to convert it to docbook and fit it into a guide for a new contributor, while they learn the ropes - within reason. Converting things repeatedly back and forth between any two formats is going to degrade the work, and eat up a lot of time. This would be something for a mentor and protege to work out between them, at the mentor's discretion. -- -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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