DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DocBook with AbiWord?

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> was heard to say:
| I do not know what ABIWord does, but I don't think this as
| fundamentally impossible as you claim. All that's needed is a standard
| word processor interface, except that instead of menu items like
| italic we have menu items like  emphasis.

That's only half the battle. The tricky bit is knowing the schema of
the document type that you're editing. If I have my cursor "between"
two paragraphs and I try to insert emphasis, it's got to know that
either (1) I can't or (2) some additional markup (perhaps a containing
para) is implied.

And it has to do this in a way that users don't find totally annoying
or totally inexplicable.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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