Re: tools for writing xml or docbook

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:19:26 -0500
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Erik Jones writes:

> My question is, what tools do you folks recommend for writing in docbook 
> format. (it is the format I am presently looking into) 

emacs works for me.

Depending on what I'm running at the moment, sometimes I find that xemacs's 
SGML mode is better than emacs'; sometimes it's the other way around.


> I have been reading that working 'by hand' is generally not recommended 
> and I am 'googling' around, but I figured some advice couldn't hurt. 

I don't know where you read that, emacs always worked for me.  But your 
message raised some interest, and brief googling found this:

http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/

Sounds like a worthwhile investigation: write docbook stuff in OpenOffice=E2=
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