Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-24 Thread Alan Ackerman
I liked Kedit on MS-DOS quite a bit. Hum, wonder if I can find that old software and run it in DosBox? I use Kedit for Windows, which works fine on Windows XP, anyway. It's a commercial product though, not open source. KEDIT for Windows 1.6 is officially supported on Windows XP, Windows

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread David Boyes
On 12/19/10 9:17 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: this at all was with a very old system based on SGML called Waterloo Script, which I think evolved into IBM's Document Composition Facility (DCF). Other way round. SCRIPT was a Type III app, but Waterloo greatly extended it in terms of

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:18 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo? snip Emacs. It has a good DocBook mode

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Jones
: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:18 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo? snip Emacs. It has a good DocBook mode, and if you're

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Monday, December 20, 2010 09:51:33 am John McKown wrote: I never got into emacs. I'm more a vim person. But I really want a mixture of gvim+pdf/xedit. Or more like pdf or xedit with Perl regular expressions for find and replace. I've tried THE, but it seems to be just different enough to

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread McKown, John
Looks like I've done it again. Instead of starting with the basics, I picked up a book and tried to figure out what I want to do. Like deciding to learn how to program by picking up the Java Language Reference Manual and starting to type in some code. But, it is just for my own learning and

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 2010-12-20 16:56, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: On Monday, December 20, 2010 09:51:33 am John McKown wrote: I never got into emacs. I'm more a vim person. But I really want a mixture of gvim+pdf/xedit. Or more like pdf or xedit with Perl regular expressions for find and replace. I've tried THE,

Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-19 Thread John McKown
Please forgive the very lame and ignorant question. I want to learn something totally new to me. And part of that is structuring documentation. I've heard of all of the above. My only background in this at all was with a very old system based on SGML called Waterloo Script, which I think evolved