On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:24, D@7@k|N& wrote:
Sorry. Nature of the beast. I manage a multiplatform environment at
my
work, so there are times when I need a similar multiplatform environment at
home. Just because of history, WinXP is my primary home environment.
Until a few
weeks ago, win2k was mine.
I still manage to send plain text emails,
use emacs on win2k with psgml.
It can be done, honest:-)
You can do this if XML is beyond your means. But frankly, if you're
comfortable writing HTML or using "styles" in your favorite word
processor, Docbook XML is really not any harder. You have to write the
tags, true, but there are tools to help. Read on for more....
Don't have a problem with HTML, but I don't really use styles. I use
notepad (or vi) as much or more than Word (or Abiword).
If you are happy with vi, then vim has an xml plugin/extension whatever,
that users say is just as good as emacs for xml.
I am way more interested in authoring, than in editing. I'm not
sure how
much I have to contribute, but am definitely willing to contribute what I
can.
<snip>
Asking questions is always the right way to start.
Like I said...it's Charlie (or dataking if the upper/lower ASCII
is a pain),
and it's a different PGP key. ;)
P.S. I'm CC'ing my linux address so I can see just how badly Outlook
mangles these emails. I've received too many *seemingly superficial*
complaints not to know. ;)
Hi Charlie.
I gave up on Outlook when it managed to screw up/lose my address book.
I actually bought Eudora, just to get a plain text email address book.
Good luck with the authoring.
--
Regards DaveP.
XSLT&Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl