On Thursday 17 October 2002 13:15, Gour wrote: > Hi! > > I just finished editing 2nd book on LyX, but soon I have to start working > on some course and use DocBook as authoring format and I'm thinking about > the possible roadmap in using LyX & DocBook. > > Since I still believe that LyX & DocBook produce far superior output than > alternatives, I'd like to stick with producing output by LyX & LaTeX. > > However, the question is how to author the source document? > > I didn't try myself (my toolchain is not setup yet), I heard that LyX > support for DocBook is not complete, so it means that I'd have to write in > some XML editor and then try to import the XML source in LyX via DB2LyX.
What this means is there are places where you should use lots of ERT (Evil Red Text :-), that is the equivalent when you use latex in lyx-latex documents. > What is the current status of DB2LyX? > > I'd like to stick with LyX as source editor, so I'd liek to hear > experiences of some users. > > Recently, Sebastian R. mentioned on DocBook list that he'll move his > Passive Texdevelopment to ConTeXt since it gives better support for XML. I saw that too. > What is the future of LaTeX & LyX regarding the future trend of adopting > XML (DocBook) technology? > > There was a thread on developer's list recently about moving LyX format to > XML. Then it would be possible to write some XSLT to transform LyX-XML > format into DocBook and vice versa. > > Is it realistic to see this feature soon? That seems to be one of our goals, so that any help is welcome. :-) > Sincerely, > Gour -- José Abílio
