Getting started: editors, direct rendering, which DTD?

Hi.

I'm looking to learn some more about DocBook.  I've done
some reading at the
main site and followed up some of the links and am at the
stage where I'm
getting more confused rather than less: I believe a lot of
the information I'm
reading may be somewhat out of date.

I'm looking to author small technical documents, on a
Windows platform: Am I
right in thinking XmlMind seems to be the editor of choice
for this, even
though its Personal Edition is not free for commercial use?
Are there any
alternatives I should be seriously considering?

My strong preference is to be able to render DocBook file
directly in an up to
date IE browser, rather than build and upload to a website. 
Is this a
feasible objective for small documents?  Should I be looking
at the Simplified
DTD to do this rather than v4 or v5?  If so, can you suggest
suitable XSL
transforms and CSS style sheets that would get me up to
speed quickly?

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

ian
...


Ian S Worthington
  
...
  
http://isw.me.uk/
  

  
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria
vivere, et
dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute
patriae.







------------------------------------------------------------
---------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribelists.oasis-open.org
For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-helplists.oasis-open.org

Ian S. Worthington wrote:
> 
> Any guidance would be much appreciated.
> 

I'm relatively new to DocBook but I've managed to produce
some documents
(HTML/PDF) with images.

This book was of great help to me: 
http://
www.sagehill.net/book-description.html
http://
www.sagehill.net/book-description.html .  I couldn't say
enough good
words about it as a reference.

In my environment, it was important to have a single package
for
installation. I found that the Velocity framework has a
DocBook component 
http://velocity.a
pache.org/docbook/ http://velocity.a
pache.org/docbook/  and
I started using it.  Twiking it to use 0.94 FOP and various
docbook-xsl
files was trivial.  

I prefer the command line for my document generations (that
way I can
include it with my builds).  Velocity fits this nicely with
its Ant
controlled build.

As for editors, I prefer simple text editors when dealing
with markup
languages.  I experimented with XmlMind but found it
(personally) difficult
to use.  It was a fine product but I found it easier to work
lower in the
weeds.

-Fred

-- 
View this message in context: http:
//www.nabble.com/Getting-started%3A-editors%2C-direct-render
ing%2C-which-DTD--tf4621199.html#a13240285
Sent from the docbook General mailing list archive at
Nabble.com.


------------------------------------------------------------
---------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribelists.oasis-open.org
For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-helplists.oasis-open.org