[OSGeo-Discuss] Using OpenOffice to write DocBook files

[Jody Garnett]

Open Office supports a set of Doc Book styles right now ... not sure I 
understand what you are looking for. I have used DocBook before to make 
online help (according to the eclipse writing guidelines). I used a tool 
called XMLMind which was pretty scary but good once you got into it. 
DocBook was much more suited to writing reference materials than 
tutorials; but it at least has all the tags for button, menu and the 
like so you can be specific when documenting software.

If you can try and stick to simplified docbook; save the gathering of 
content into books for a script.

Jody


> 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
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