[OSGeo-Discuss] Using OpenOffice to write DocBook files

[Ned Horning]

Greetings,

The education and curriculum group is looking into promoting DocBook as 
a recommended format for content for tutorials and it might provide 
useful resources to folks interested in producing software 
documentation. There is interest in using OpenOffice as a writing tool 
for DocBook and I'd like to know if any of you folks could help us make 
progress in this area. The idea is to create templates so authors write 
using a set of restricted styles in OpenOffice and then transform the 
document to the DocBook format. My understanding is that O'Reilly does 
something along these lines. Does anyone out there have any contacts 
with O'Reilly that we can use to find out if they would be willing to 
share their methods and templates? Can you think of other ideas that 
would help us reduce the work required to do this from scratch?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

All the best,

Ned