I've been experimenting with the concepts of http://microformats.org/
which are basically XHTML documents where you use classes on divs (and
other html elements) to provide some semantics to a document. Hopefully
someone will come up with a docbook like micro format. Until then I've
just made one up for a document I've been working on.
The nice thing with this is as it's HTML you can view and style it in a
web browser easily. And because it's XHTML you can parse it using
software the same way you could with docbook and then generate PDF's or
other document formats from it.
Here is an example document
http://ecsv.org/ecsv/specification/
Although this is interesting you might want to stick with something with
tool support. Docbook does have the XML Mind editor for editing the
documents.
Paul
Stefan Steiniger wrote:
that is something I like too... (separating files + images...) and thus
is way easier for doing it on the svn - especially as it is text file
only. For word one could only check-in and out the complete file.
However, Word does also support the inclusion/connection of several
files. Which is to recommend.
mhm.. the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of writing it
initially with a normal text editor. Or... maybe we think about writing
it with a CSS style format. E.g. we could use a template that was used
for e-leraning: see www.ELML.ch. I wrote a lesson in ELML using their
xml markers. ELML can be used with Eclipse and the Oxygen Editor. Then
one can convert the xml-files to either web-pages and/or pdfs. Using
such system would ease a couple of things in terms of collaborative
work. However, I think to get the system setup will take some work.
Writing will be a peace of cake then. What do you think about it?
stefan
Christopher wrote:
The thing I like about LaTeX and other TeX derivatives
is that the chapters are separate files and everything
is in plain text. This would allow for the file to be
maintained as part of the SVN repository, thus
allowing easier collaboration.
But I’m open for anything.
--Christopher
--- Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Christopher,
I'm currently using Microsoft Word because I am
writing the document
at work. However, I run OpenOffice at home and on my
laptop, so I am
open to using that. I must tell you that I have been
trying to use
LaTex for some of my work at the OSGeo, and I have
acquired a strond
dislike for it. I'd be willing to use something like
docbook though.
At any rate, I plan on moving the document to
Scribus for final layout
as a professional document. I'm thinking I might
publish the finished
book trough LuLu, and donate any profits to fund
work on OpenJUMP. The
actual text content will be released trough the
creative commons.
I'm more than willing to accept criticisms and
suggestions on the
document content. I'd be especially interested in
what you think
should be added for new plug-in programmers.
Landon
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