Re: Docbook

[Dave Malcolm <david davemalcolm demon co uk>]

On Sunday 13 October 2002 19:10, John J. Boyer wrote:
> dave,
> This is very interesting. I'm working on a project to produce books in
> alternate formats such as braille, large print and special text files.
> one requirement of the project is to be able to produce graphs and
> simple drawings in tactile form. So I'm wondering if Conglomerate
> handles SVG. Does it have drawing and image manipulation facilities? To
> read more about my project go to http://www.chpi.org/gnomebrl.html .
> Thanks.
> John
> On

Since Conglomerate is XML-based it can deal with such things as SVG.  The 
idea is to only support text-editing and raw structural hierarchy such as 
chapters within the core program, and use Bonobo to embed components for 
special-purpose tasks like SVG or MathML.  However this component 
functionality only exists at the moment as a hack; when it is more mature it 
should make the program a very user-friendly DocBook editor.

I believe that for SVG editing at the moment you want to have a look at 
Sodipodi (which I hope I'll eventually be able to embed as a component).

Be warned that the Conglomerate website is currently very out of date.  The 
document management and transformation functionality it speaks of does not 
exist any more.  At some point I'd like to reimplement it but there's only so 
much time, and at the moment I'm focussing on other aspects of the project.

Hope this information is useful.

Dave Malcolm

>
> Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Dave Malcolm wrote:
> > On Friday 11 October 2002 17:01, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Where do I find documentation on DocBook?
> > > Where do i find the programs to create and manipulate DocBook files?
> > > I am writing documentation for a GNOME application, so this information
> > > would be very useful.
> > > John
> >
> > I'm working on Conglomerate (www.conglomerate.org), which aims to be a
> > user-friendly XML editor, and DocBook support is one of the primary
> > goals. But it is not yet ready for general usage (and, I'm afraid, is
> > also not at all accessible yet, relying on a special-purpose custom
> > widget).  The project has been dormant for a couple for years; I recently
> > started hacking on it and ported it to GNOME 2.
> >
> > I hope to get a release out in the next month or so.
> >
> > If anyone knows of any other free XML, SGML or DocBook editors please let
> > me know!
> >
> > Dave Malcolm
> >
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