On Friday 04 September 2009 13:46, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Nino Novak wrote: > > A propos inconsistencies: Has there been a thought/discussion to > > use DocBook as master for documentation? > > I know that OOo is supposed to deal with DocBook files in some way, > but I've never understood how that works. Would love to learn more. > > Can Writer create/edit DocBook files, as a front-end that ordinary > mortals can understand? I think that when documenting an office suite > with a word processor component, that one should use that word > processor component, not some other program.
I'm not an expert - to be honest I hoped to meet the experts here ;-) but on the German community mailing list we had a discussion if it makes sense to use the wiki for documentation at all - as this raises the problem of double bookkeeping and of converting documents. A possible solution would be to use a common Master. So my question should have been: does it make sense to consider a general setting with DocBook as master for all documents? I don't know if there are good docbook->odt or docbook->wiki filters but from theory this seems more straightforward than odt->wiki and vice versa. BTW - I don't see any problems in using specialized tools for special goals, think of the issue tracker, pootle, Plone etc. The word processor serves for creating nice documents, the question addressed here is more to generate different output formats from the same content source. Nino --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
