Re: [gnome-love] Looking for ways to get involved

[Benoît Rouits <brouits free fr>]

Le Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:56:43+0200 Agon S.
Buchholz:Agon écris:
> it's possible even with FrontPage, left besides tools
> like LyX (for TeX syntax) and FrameMaker+SGML (for SGML
> DTDs), so why shouldn't it be possible with HTML and an
> GPL'd visual WYSIWYG/ WYSIWYM editor?

I know it might be a surprising reply, but you can look at
the Abiword source, since it seems to be far more
structured than it appear: the files are pure XML, and
the rendering can be made by personnal CSS (for the typo),
thus, it is easy to change the layout of a same XML (abw)
file. Also, it exports very well in valid strict xHTML.
However, i admit that the menu interface of Abiword
doesn't reveal the structure as well as in TeX editors,
since it tries to be rather to a 'word + html' tool.
Before to look at the sources, just look inside an XML.abw
file: you can see markups like <section level="0"> or
<p level="0"> <p level="1"> and so on..

If you want, from a non-wysiwyg part, you can also get
look at the *Tree* view of the'getox' XML editor
(which is made over gnome libs):
<http://idx-getox.idealx.org/>

> (2) A mainly Logical-/ structural-based WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM
> document editor/ document processing app in the kind of
> LyX, but with a real GUI. since even Klyx for the KDE is
> dead, there are (to my current knowledge) currently no
> plans to build visal interfaces to TeX/LaTeX in the
> works.

Didn't you look at TeXmacs ? it is Really Wysiwyg TeX!
(though i personnaly prefer Lyx because of its simplicity)

Hope this teases,
--
 Ben 
(also interested in the XML of gnu-denemo..)