getting started (false start 1 of ?)

[David Malcolm]

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.
> 
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