[ale] Tools for writing docbook?

[BruceG]

On Monday 16 August 2004 09:37, Grady Harris wrote:
> I've written a few short tutorials for work using DocBook, and as long as I
> didn't try to rely on my memory, it was not difficult (in contrast with
> mark-up I've done using the Text Encoding Initiative schema). It is very
> similar to editing html in a text editor--I use jEdit, with the XML
> plug-ins, most frequently for this, which gives me a contextual list of
> permitted elements with each opening less-than, and validates against the
> DTD as I go.
>
> Go ahead & give it a try--I spent a great deal of time studying English
> prosody--XML is just another set of stanzaic & stichic forms, & the rules
> are a lot less complex than those of, say, a sestina or a canzone.

Canzone,  mmmmm. Is that like a canned calzone? I might have been a lit major, 
but I guess I didn't pay that much attention. Anyway - thanks for the info. 
I'll read some more on XML. Should be an interesting project.

I did create a basic document in Kate and was able to use db2html to put it in 
HTML format. db2rtf also worked. db2pdf didn't, so I have some research to 
do. I also installed some EMacs tools, and that looked a LOT nicer than using 
Kate. So - for the very short chapter I'm doing (just a couple pages at most) 
I'll try simply editing by hand.

I will take a look a Jedit and FOP to see what they give. Thanks for the heads 
up.