On Nov 7, 2007 4:59 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> 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!"