On Dec 15, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Mike Alexander <m...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote: >> >> Or if we want to stick with docbook, I searched for docbook wysiwyg. Most >> editors are >> proprietary and pricey. But there is also serna-free [1], which claims to be >> a near wysiwyg >> editor that can handle docbook 4 (according to a nabble thread from last >> year August [2]). I >> haven't had time to experiment with it though. > > They certainly are expensive. I used to be a developer on Arbortext's Epic > product, now marketed as PTC Arbortext Editor. It would be a good tool for > this, but it is very expensive. It's also essentially Windows only (there > used to be a Linux version, but I'm not sure it's still maintained). Things > like that would perhaps be overkill for this anyway. They are designed for > very complex documents, like an aircraft parts manual. Because of this, they > assume a support staff that can help with setup and customization. > > There is a page at > <http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/docwritehowto-docbook-authoring-tools.html> > that lists a few cheap or free DocBook editors. Also > <http://www.happy-monkey.net/docbook/gui-editor.html> claims there is a free > personal edition of XMLMind's XXE, but I can't find it. > Yeah, and the firebirdsql page claims that there’s a free edition of XMLSpy, but I couldn’t find any actual evidence of it. It’s also more of a technical editor aimed at web developers than something that would be suitable for authors. The cheapest version at http://www.altova.com/xmlspy.html is $500. The restrictions for the $99 license (not $48 claimed on the firebirdsql page) of http://oxygenxml.com/academic/ are strict, but someone here might meet them, I suppose. A Regular license is $488. As you noted, the claim of a free version of XMLMind is also wrong. Regular price $330. They’re wrong in the other direction for epcedit (http://www.epcedit.com/), which is free-as-in-beer. It seems a bit technical, but unlike XMLSpy does have a WYSIWYG mode. I tried pandoc. It doesn’t follow the entity links. The same is true of the Open Office importers. We can probably make a one-way conversion to ods, but there won’t be an easy way to get back to DocBook. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
