Hi, while reading a Steve Litt's column on writing technical books (http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200201/200201.htm) I found this:
But Docbook had its own problems. I could have used Emacs to front end my Docbook, but I don't know Emacs and have had trouble trying to learn it. LyX can front end only the SGML version of Docbook, and I wanted to use the XML Docbook representation, so a LyX front end for Docbook was unsuitable for me. Most other Docbook front ends required tag coding, which is a productivity killer for a writer. The moment you switch your focus to coding a tag, you forget the idea about which you were writing. Ughhh! This is not completely correct. If you don't need BibTeX (I do), then you can pretty easily create Docbook XML from SGML Docbook with the attached script (you have to run it in the same directory as the original LyX file. You can even define Docbook XML as new format in LyX and define conversion for it (see attached screenshot of its definition). It is very rough and probably buggy, but it may work at least partially. However, then the answer is what to do with Docbook XML file and it is not simple either. Comments? Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams
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