Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Overview of available editors

[ben <nicolas dot marsgui at libertysurf dot fr>]

Erik Leunissen a écrit :

> I am new to docbook and would like to have an overview of interactive
> tools (GUI-based editors) that aim to help giving structure to docbook
> documents.
>
> My primary interest concerns utilities runnning under Linux, but I'm
> willing to switch to a windows tool if necessary.

The free (or that can be used for a limited amount of time) tools I know:

- xemacs + psgml, if you are fond of emacs style editing
- gvim, that supports SGML hilighting
- XMLMind XML Editor (XXE) , a java tool that is quite interesting; the
rendering is based on CSS stylesheets, the doc validity is checked, etc.
The main drawback I see is that multi-parts docs are not supported, and
changing the doc structure is not so easy.
- Morphon editor, a java tool quite similar to XXE, even if really slower
(at least for me).
- epcEdit, that is interesting because you control exactly the file
content. The rendering is based on stylesheets too, but it seems to be a
specific stylesheet format. Pros: modifying the doc is easy. Cons:
multi-parts doc is not supported.
- qemacs, a small editor à la emacs, not really mature but promising.
- LyX supports a DocBook mode; it's easy to use, but not all the tags are
supported.

BG