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lyx and sgml

From
Bruce Momjian
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Has anyone tried lyx and sgml.  It says they support sgml and linuxdoc.

I like the program, and see what you are saying about descriptive tags.
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Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

From
"Thomas G. Lockhart"
Date:
> Has anyone tried lyx and sgml.  It says they support sgml and 
> linuxdoc.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work for us. We use DocBook, not linuxdoc, as
does the rest of the world now, including the LDP folks.

They have been talking about extending lyx to work with DocBook...
                - Tom

Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> > Has anyone tried lyx and sgml.  It says they support sgml and 
> > linuxdoc.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it doesn't work for us. We use DocBook, not linuxdoc, as
> does the rest of the world now, including the LDP folks.
> 
> They have been talking about extending lyx to work with DocBook...

Good.  Seems like a natural.  I will keep my eyes on it.  lyx really
seems like an amazing word processor.   Like troff, but for X windows,
and more flexible.

Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine, and
has lots of customization, but for a large paper or a book, troff just
doesn't cut it, and I can see how lyx would be very good for that. 
Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
but I can see lyx handling it nicely.

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Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

From
"Thomas G. Lockhart"
Date:
> Good.  Seems like a natural.  I will keep my eyes on it.  lyx really
> seems like an amazing word processor.   Like troff, but for X windows,
> and more flexible.
> Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine, 
> Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
> but I can see lyx handling it nicely.

I haven't actually run lyx (since it didn't support my toolset), but had
subscribed to their mailing list for quite a while to stay in touch with
it. afaik it is a wysiwyg text entry application, and it would use sgml
tags both internally and as the markup for output docs. So we would
still use jade to generate our production output.
               - Tom

Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> > Good.  Seems like a natural.  I will keep my eyes on it.  lyx really
> > seems like an amazing word processor.   Like troff, but for X windows,
> > and more flexible.
> > Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine, 
> > Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
> > but I can see lyx handling it nicely.
> 
> I haven't actually run lyx (since it didn't support my toolset), but had
> subscribed to their mailing list for quite a while to stay in touch with
> it. afaik it is a wysiwyg text entry application, and it would use sgml
> tags both internally and as the markup for output docs. So we would
> still use jade to generate our production output.

lyx specializes in using tags to mark sections, rather than formatting
instructions.

So you say "Author" rather than, "Center".  Sort of like sgml vs. html.


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