lyx and sgml

Started by Bruce Momjianover 27 years ago5 messagesdocs
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#1Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us

Has anyone tried lyx and sgml. It says they support sgml and linuxdoc.

I like the program, and see what you are saying about descriptive tags.

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#2Thomas Lockhart
lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#1)
Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

Has anyone tried lyx and sgml. It says they support sgml and
linuxdoc.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work for us. We use DocBook, not linuxdoc, as
does the rest of the world now, including the LDP folks.

They have been talking about extending lyx to work with DocBook...

- Tom

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Thomas Lockhart (#2)
Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

Has anyone tried lyx and sgml. It says they support sgml and
linuxdoc.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work for us. We use DocBook, not linuxdoc, as
does the rest of the world now, including the LDP folks.

They have been talking about extending lyx to work with DocBook...

Good. Seems like a natural. I will keep my eyes on it. lyx really
seems like an amazing word processor. Like troff, but for X windows,
and more flexible.

Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine, and
has lots of customization, but for a large paper or a book, troff just
doesn't cut it, and I can see how lyx would be very good for that.
Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
but I can see lyx handling it nicely.

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#4Thomas Lockhart
lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

Good. Seems like a natural. I will keep my eyes on it. lyx really
seems like an amazing word processor. Like troff, but for X windows,
and more flexible.
Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine,
Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
but I can see lyx handling it nicely.

I haven't actually run lyx (since it didn't support my toolset), but had
subscribed to their mailing list for quite a while to stay in touch with
it. afaik it is a wysiwyg text entry application, and it would use sgml
tags both internally and as the markup for output docs. So we would
still use jade to generate our production output.

- Tom

#5Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Thomas Lockhart (#4)
Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml

Good. Seems like a natural. I will keep my eyes on it. lyx really
seems like an amazing word processor. Like troff, but for X windows,
and more flexible.
Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine,
Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
but I can see lyx handling it nicely.

I haven't actually run lyx (since it didn't support my toolset), but had
subscribed to their mailing list for quite a while to stay in touch with
it. afaik it is a wysiwyg text entry application, and it would use sgml
tags both internally and as the markup for output docs. So we would
still use jade to generate our production output.

lyx specializes in using tags to mark sections, rather than formatting
instructions.

So you say "Author" rather than, "Center". Sort of like sgml vs. html.

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