RE: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2013-01-04 Thread Kerry, Richard
When I eventually got back to looking at this I realized there was a rather fundamental question that I had assumed an answer for and not tested Can the Catalog be written using relative paths ? For some reason I had believed the answer was No. Possibly because that was in all t

Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-10 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 12/10/2012 10:21 AM, Kerry, Richard wrote: > >> The easiest thing to do would be an editor as XMLMind's XXE >> (as Stefan >> Seefeld pointed out), or Oxygen XML Editor which my >> department is using. > That involves buying some editors as we don't currently have any; though I > think XXE

RE: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-10 Thread Kerry, Richard
> The easiest thing to do would be an editor as XMLMind's XXE > (as Stefan > Seefeld pointed out), or Oxygen XML Editor which my > department is using. That involves buying some editors as we don't currently have any; though I think XXE can be used for free so that might be a possibility fo

RE: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-10 Thread Kerry, Richard
> That's right. I'm the only one who operates the publishing system. > I've got a server running the Hudson continuous integration build > manager. It checks our source code control system every night and if > any writers have checked in changes, it launches a build. So the > writers don't have t

Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-10 Thread Stefan Hinz
Hi Richard, > I'm not sure it would work for us. We produce software and write our own documentation. And there aren't many of us. What my colleagues are used to is ediiting in Word and producing PDF straight from it using a third-party pseudo-printer (BullZip) (*). Some have started produci

Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-07 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 12/07/2012 10:14 AM, Kerry, Richard wrote: > > > > Peter, > > > > So yours is a workflow where the XML writers don't produce final > outputs themselves. Indeed many/most of them can't do so as they > don't have the publishing tools. > > > > Is this the common way DocBook authoring and pub

RE: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-07 Thread Kerry, Richard
o do this so we're sticking with this method. From: Peter Desjardins [peter.desjardins...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 December 2012 16:04 To: Kerry, Richard Cc: DocBook Apps Mailing List [docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org] Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manag

Re: [docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-04 Thread Peter Desjardins
In my environment, most people don't have to set up the publishing tools so hand editing the catalog is not a problem. I keep all the publishing tools (the catalog, DTDs, Saxon, XSL) in a directory that people can grab and put anywhere on a computer. Then the person setting up to publish needs to g

[docbook-apps] How do you manage your catalogs ?

2012-12-03 Thread Kerry, Richard
How do people manage their XML catalogs, when developing DocBook ? In particular when you're not working alone so need to share a catalog's contents but with individualized base paths. And even if 'not alone' just means there's a build server which needs a catalog of its own. Of course usi