Re: Software for Writing Documentation

[אנטולי קרס נר <tombackton gmail com>]

I never used snippets before, just had a look (gedit 3.4.2). Looks
great :)

On ב', 2013-06-17 at 16:32 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
> I'd recommend using gedit, particularly gedit version 3.8 or later,
> which features a complete set of Mallard Snippets.
>
>
> If you want to get real-time XML validation, I'd recommend Emacs with
> nXML mode. Emacs is more complex, of course, but is more powerful.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:08 AM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com>
> 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?
>         
>         Thanks in advance
>         Anatoly
>         
>         
>         
>         *** Random ideas: ***
>         - An XML editor such as Conglomerate or XMLCopyEditor
>         - An IDE which adds closing tags automatically
>         - A WYSIWYM document processor able to export to XML/Docbook,
>         such as
>         LyX maybe
>         - Convenient Mallard/XML editing mode in Emacs
>         
>         Does anyone use any such tool? If not, maybe I'll write a tool
>         myself, I
>         don't see a reason why a tool like Lyx, or even a simple
>         document
>         processor like Abiword, can't be used to export Mallard docs.
>         And a
>         special too for Mallard can be even better :)
>         
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