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Alaric B Snell wrote: > > I'd agree with that! Although most of you here on XML-DEV probably > think of me as rabidly anti-XML, that's just because I disagree with > using it for data interchange - things like DocBook are much easier to > do in XML than SGML, an absolute pleasure. I'd choose DocBook/XML in > Emacs over Word (for writing books, anyway - letters really need a > different document structure) any day! > Personally I have always found DOCBOOK hideous to use. There are always so many layers of markup, I always susect that it was written with some particular editor in mind. My general advice is not to use XML at all unless you are working on a large-enough project to make the tooling up worthwhile. Word has been famously not geared for large documents, but FrameMaker and Word Perfect are pretty good, in my experience. I find authoring in simple HTML or even unmarked-up blank-line separated paragraphs, then marking the document up in the target DTD is a pretty efficient approach. That way you can defer having to understand the minutae of structure and tools until after you have finished thinking about your words. Has anyone looked at the Word 2003 schemas? What are the advances on RTF? Do they have real tables and do they have autonumbering asynchonous with the element structure? Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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