Re: [Firebird-docs] Building new Firebird docs

[Herman T. <tim...@sk...>]

Paul Vinkenoog wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> A number of people have expressed interest in helping with the docs
> lately, so this might be a good time to discuss what kind of
> documentation we would like to produce, and how we are going to set
> things up.
> 
> But first, if you are new to the Firebird Documentation subproject,
> read this webpage if you haven't already done so; it contains a lot
> of information about the tools you are going to need:
> 
>   http://
>   firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=devel&sub=doc&id=development
> 
> Also follow the links in the section titled "Environment setup".
> 
> NOTE: Do not yet checkout ("download") the manual module from the
> Firebird CVS tree at SourceForge. In the current state the doc
> building process doesn't work. Tilo fixed it, but it seems the
> changes didn't make it to the CVS tree yet.
> 
> (Well you can still checkout the module of course, to test your
> CVS setup :-))
> 
> TIP: For XML editing, I prefer XMLMind because it really lets you
> work with the *structure* of your document. Being Java-based, it
> loads slowly and it also has one big drawback: it won't let you work
> in source (flat text) mode. Still, I prefer it to the others I've
> tested. The Standard Edition is free; you can find it at:
> 
>   http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/
> 
Why not just writing the documentation in OpenOffice?
It is open source, multi-platform, you can produce PDF and  RTF and DOC 
formats as well, and the internal format is XML based (if I'm not 
mistaking?)
Brgds,
Herman

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