Inkscape

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:21:00 -0400
Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey@...> wrote:


> > Inkscape's broader purpose is as a drawing program, so mixing both
> > drawing and text document editing into a single application would
> > muddle the interface and functionality.
> >
> 
> That would be docBook, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook>, an XML 
> way of laying out documents.  I don't think Inkscape should do this
> too.

aehhm, DocBook is something very different from what i am targeting at
because it supports dynamic and themed layout instead of sticking to
fix layout. it is a real meta-format. i'd rather go with PageMaker. if
you mention DocBook because of multi-pages, as said, one can embed
multiple svg documents into one xml/svg document.

maledetto <maledetto@...>

On 10-08-29 09:43 AM, maledetto@... wrote:
> aehhm, DocBook is something very different from what i am targeting at
> because it supports dynamic and themed layout instead of sticking to
> fix layout. it is a real meta-format. i'd rather go with PageMaker. if
> you mention DocBook because of multi-pages, as said, one can embed
> multiple svg documents into one xml/svg document.

DocBook can also do static, plain-vanilla documents.  The question is 
whether or not Inkscape should do more than just create pictures.  I 
don't think so.  There are plenty of other FLOSS that can do this. 
DocBook if you want to stay in XML, Scribus for for desktop publishing, 
AbiWord or Open Office Word for word processing.  The question is:  What 
do you want to do with multiple SVGs in one file?


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