OpenOffice.org 1.9 (FC4t3)

Sat May 14 18:20:36 UTC 2005

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:49 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> FWIW, I have been playing a little bit with the FC4test3 build, and as
> of last night, OO.o now will create DocBook XML 4.1.2 documents "out of
> the box," as long as the Java environment is installed.  This could be a
> great step forward for our project since it would allow non-Emacs, non-
> XML folks to write documents.

Stunning !

> I haven't fully investigated yet how well the XSLT stuff in OO.o works
> to import documents.  In other words, will it serve well for
> collaboration between people who are not using the same tool?  

FWIW, the main issue I had with gedit > Emacs switching was actually the
indenting.  Emacs indents nicely for DocBook written in it, but if you
also edit the file with something that doesn't indent then the layout
gets messed up.  I opted to exclusively use Emacs to avoid this issue.

-- 

Stuart Ellis

stuart at elsn.org

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