NGN wrote:
Congratulations! I could say quite a lot about Word drawbacks, but that
wouldn't help anyone; and I've been able to insist for at least fifteen years
that I will not use it for professional documentation :-}
Personally, and without any idea of how much development it would involve, I'd
(also) welcome an XML Mind > .rtf/.odt output option that carried the DITA tags
across and used the tag-names for styles instead of making everything Normal.
I look forward to trying out w2x.
NGN then wrote:
Of course, I realised moments after clicking [Send] that setting up
output styles mapped to DITA tags is not that easy – the same element
may require different formatting depending on its context.
XMLmind XSL-FO Converter already has support for named MS-Word styles.
See "XSL-FO extension for generating named styles" --
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/user_styles.html
However modifying our (quite large) DITA XSLT stylesheets to map DITA
tags to named MS-Word styles would need a lot of efforts for a very
small return on investment.
With no
customers to please, I can just carry on avoiding Word whenever possible :-}
Note that technical writers (like you) are not the primary target of a
product like XMLmind Word To XML. We expect XMLmind Word To XML to be
embedded in server-side applications. MS-Word authors could then post
their contributions in the form of DOCX files to such servers.
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