Re: Not reinventing the wheel ...

Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stéphane Téletchéa <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> Nice to hear that, but infortunately, that'll probably not help me a lot
> when i'll be to wirte my publication with coworkers using either
> Openoffice.org 1.x series and Word 2003 (if not before). I'm talking
> about practical situations, within something like 6 months.
>

FWIW my short-term solution for this problem is to use Emacs+DocBook+RefDB in
the writing phase. Only once the contents are done, and only if the output
format must be a word processor format, I transform to RTF using Openjade and
add the final touches in OO. If anyone claims that DocBook is too hard to teach
to the average mouse pusher addicted to Word, I always like to point out that an
average paper or grant proposal can be written using less than 40 elements (out
of >300).

I'm currently revisiting an old project that would allow me to enter these
30-something elements using a Wiki-style short syntax. There is a paper on the
web that describes how to transform Wiki to XML using Openjade.

regards
Markus

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