I haven't done anything very fancy with it, but if you want a wysiwyg
editor for DocBook, Oxygen is pretty good and reasonably priced, and the
support is very good. I've used it to generate small documentation sets,
and I like it.
As I say, though, I haven't really put it through its paces.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:15:37 +0200, Lea Hayes <leaha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Alex
>>
>
>  After serious consideration this seems to be the easiest approach overall
>> (whilst a little extra initial preparation is required). Though at this
>> stage I am not committed to this approach, I am still in the experimental
>> phase really. I am looking for something with flexibility over visual
>> styles (which DocBook seems to lack), whilst maintaining good semantics,
>> whilst having both HTML and PDF output that are both consistent in style
>> and easy to use. And hopefully far easier to edit using WYSIWYG. Whilst I
>> do not mind manually typing XML elements around my text when writing XML
>> comments, I can see this becoming very tedious when writing large amounts
>> of technical documentation.
>>
>
> Many thanks for this. Actually I'm going on holidays and, among other
> things, I'd like to find a reasonable solution for the problem. I've
> written a few docbook code (with a Maven plugin which embeds source
> examples) but I'm tired of it because I didn't have a good experience with
> any of the available editors. In the meantime, my tiny CMS is now
> feature-ready and entering the beta stage, it runs all of my sites and it's
> based on HTML 5, which I appreciate and I think it should be enough for
> decent document writing. The idea is to have a unique platform for writing
> articles, embedding code samples, both for my blog posts and eventually
> being collected in book form. The missing point was conversion to PDF,
> which seems to be solved by the tool you pointed to.
>
>
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