Re: Software for Writing Documentation

[אנטולי קרס נר <tombackton gmail com>]

I see, thanks.

I don't think I'll write an exporter for LyX, but writing an export
plugin for Gnote or CherryTree can do great job. CherryTree is a
personal wiki with hierarchical page tree, links,tables, images, code
boxes, etc.

Maybe with a proper exporter and minor changes, CherryTree can serve as
a Mallard GUI. Personally, I don't see a reason why anyone should stick
to plain text or Emacs cryptic keystrokes, with all the modern GUI
technology we have today.

Maybe I'll try things when I have more free time.

On ב', 2013-06-17 at 13:28 -0700, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 15:08 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm working on a desktop app using Gnome technologies and I'd like to
> > write documentation, both developer docs and a user manual.
> >
> > So far, the only GUI tool I've been using for serious documents is LyX,
> > which produces LaTex files I convert to PDF.
> >
> > But now I need to write software docs and Mallard seems to be the way to
> > do it. What are the tools for easy creation of Mallard/docbook
> > documents? Can I still use LyX? If not, are there WYSIWYM tools like
> > LyX, which produce Mallard files? Or I need to write the xml/sgml source
> > by hand?
>
> There is none, AFAIK.  In Gedit you can enable snippets, which is a
> helper to add common tags as templates.
>
> In LyX you could create an exporter for Mallard, maybe based on the SGML
> one (which AFAIU it is kind of broken).
>