Re: [Firebird-docs] Which kind of docs?

[Tilo M. <tm...@al...>]

Hi Paul, All,

> >> I don't really dig writing long documents in XML (or maybe I should
> >> say: I don't know of a free or affordable editor that makes XML
> >> writing a pleasure)
>
> > http://www.cambridgedocs.com/
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I've been playing with the Word2XML converter
> a bit. It's very affordable, but unfortunately it only produces ppXML.
> If you want DocBook, you have to use their xDoc converter which looks
> very promising but is a tad on the expensive side at $ 2495...

I don't think writing the docs in Word (or any other word processor) and
converting it afterwards to Docbook would be a good idea. Docbook separate
the text from the formatting instructions which means that you describe the
content and the formatting is later done by the stylesheets. This is the
main advantage of Docbook over any word processor and I think we should use
this advantage instead of only having Docbook as a container for dumb
text...

Regards,
Tilo