Subject: Re: DocBook with AbiWord?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 07:44:55 CST
Hi Michael,
docbook export/import is full of bugs. It barely functions. We
would really appreciate someone who knows how docbook is supposed to work
to submit patches to fix it. Hint, Hint :-)
Cheers
Martin
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> OK, if I just copied the download link from Mozilla into lynx I got
> 0.9.6-1 just fine. Interesting how much faster Lynx downloads files
> than anything else does, I thought I was limited by the speed of my
> modem!
>
> Anyway, I'd like to start using AbiWord in a serious way. I've only
> fiddled with it before. But what I'd like to do with it is make DocBook
> documents. I see a basic docbook file made, with the basic elements in
> it, if I save an empty file as DocBook.
>
> I would presume some of Abiword's styles correspond to some of docbook's
> elements. Is it possible to use other DocBook elements that aren't
> presently set up as abiword styles? Could I define a style and say how
> this is to be exported when saved as docbook? Can I reimport such
> styles? Can I do this short of hacking on the source, or if I need to,
> is there a way I can do it so the process is more straightforward in the
> future?
>
> One thing I want to do is make the top-level element <article>, rather
> than <book>, but not all the time.
>
> I'm supposed to write the programmer's manual for ZooLib, and I've been
> procrastinating about it for a long time now, in part because the author
> of ZooLib wants the manual done in DocBook. I can write in docbook xml
> directly now, using psgml in emacs, but it would be a lot more pleasant
> to me to use something like AbiWord.
>
> Maybe I'll find you some bugs. I've also been meaning for eons to
> contribute something of substance to AbiWord.
>
> Mike
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