On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 23:51, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
I am really going to regret saying this. But...
My Docbook learning experience is a little while ago now, and I
expect a new one shortly. But the "which part" is easy:
Emacs.
I realise this is a holy war,
I am sorry. I do not think this is the answer you wanted to
hear! But for me, the problem was an editor that didn't seem
to fit me, for which every manual was written.
Perfectly good answer. I am told that vim has an xml mode too,
but I don't use vim, so I can't point you to it.
I think the *use emacs* mandate is too strong, but your point
about needing Unicode is well taken.
Any text editor that supports Unicode, or an understanding of
Numerical code points is necessary.
As for installing, I am the wrong person to comment, because
from my point of view it has become a lot easier. (But it was
hell before.) I just ensure that DocBook and stylesheets are
selected in the install. And hope that they'll pull the rest
in. Hoorah for dependencies.
Having done it before, and suffered, I'm now able to do a full
docbook install without problems.
The docbook community update so frequently that you need to
be able to re-install without pain :-)
Google on vim xml gets some results. Tobias seems to have documented it;
I'm sure there is plenty around, if you want it?
--
Regards DaveP.
XSLT&Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl