On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:36:55PM +0000, Andreas Vox wrote: > José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It violates the principle "you asked for it, you got it". > > > > That is not your principle. > > What You See Is What You Mean (not What You Get). > > We also have the principle "You don't have to be a LaTeX initiate > to use LyX". I think this should also apply to SGML and DocBook.
True. > Another thing that is really missing is a distribution for DocBook, > which would include all the relevant entities, dtds, stylesheets and > programs. And CATALOGs! Something like teTeX for DocBook sgml-tools v2 tried to do that. The problem was the overhead of work to maintain the different tools, style sheets and everything else. The forced the author to abandon this strategy, to that later version 3.0 only had the basics mechanism for convertions. That is also one of the reasons o LSB standard for SGML and XML, with /etc/sgml and /etc/xml. I use FC2 and all the tools work, and I do think that this is true also for other linux distributions. > > IMHO we should a validation stage that will be called manually or before > > converting to other formats. I have discussed that with Andreas last week. > > "Started to discuss" is more like it ... :-) If I recall correctly I was arguing > for dynamical Layout-menues to keep the user from setting layouts for > paragraphs which are not allowed at this place ... It is easier for now to have them controlled manually for reasons that you have pointed out, copy and paste, external insertion, cut, code moved, etc. Is this convincing? ;-) > /Andreas -- José Abílio Matos LyX and docbook a perfect match. :-)
