If you use the very latest LyX, you will have a fairly passable DocBook export mode, but it is a one-way street. There is a "5 minute review" of LyX for DocBook at http://www.teledyn.com/help/XML Overall, though, and I know many people do not want to hear this, you do not _want_ a GUIDocBook. Having a display that shows you just one of the possible DTD rendering schemes is at best misleading and at worst, it leads you to write very bad DocBook docs. DocBook is important to tech documentation precisely because it seperates content from visual elements and allows tech information to be presented in a huge variety of forms. What we need are tools that handle the attributes of the tags and the structure of the entities, not something that renders <CODE> in courier and <EMPHASIS> in italics. The sooner we wrap our heads around that paradigm shift, the sooner we will grasp the inherent advantages of DocBook. Without that shift in essential understanding, we are back to writing flat ascii. Far from offering any advantage, using LyX or even FrameMaker/XML to write DocBook is more like using vi to write a spreadsheet. You're much better off learning a new system (like Emacs) and accepting that this is a new way of composing technical docs; it does no good to try and fit it into the old GUI/wp mindset. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: office voice/fax: 01 519 4222723 TCI - Business Innovations through Open Source : http://www.teledyn.com Canadian Co-ordinators for Bynari International : http://ca.bynari.net/ Moderator, Linux Education Group: http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-ed
