I think that you should use DocBook. I hear it too is an OASIS spec :-)
Relying on WYSIWYG for complex technical documents scares me a little
bit, but that is just me. Look at the W3C, what they are doing is
working quite well, and they use an XML format.
-Matt
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> Changed subject title to protect the innocent...
>
>
>> Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> BTW I like the idea of having HTML version of specs available
>>> online. I propose we do this for our specs as well. Any objections?
>>
>>
>
>
> Duane Nickull wrote:
>
>> Docbook?
>
>
> Actually all I was thinking is to save the document as HTML. This is a
> cheap and mindless act.
>
> The current spec source in in Word. It has several problems due to
> limitations in Word for large documents. Longer term I would like to
> move away from Word. I was thinking of Open Office which is the basis
> for the Open Office Format TC:
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
>
> Important criterea for choice of formats are:
>
> -Open format (ideally XML)
>
> -WYSIWYG Editors that are useable and reliable
>
> -Ideally freely available software
>
> Open Office meets each of the above requirements. Software is freely
> available from:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org
>
> Also since it can open Word formats migration from Word to Open Office
> would be relatively painless.
>
> What do people (and specialy Sally) think?
>
>
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