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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Linux Weekly News: A quick look at Conglomerate 0.70
At 17:30 15/09/2003, Dave Pawson wrote: >At 20:21 14/09/2003 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote: >The Achilles heel of DocBook when "selling" it as a MSWord >replacement, > >What a horrible thought. >I hope docbook is never as bad as word. I don't understand how could Docbook "replace" MSWord when (as I understand it) they are very different things: Docbook is a system for writing structured XML documents (or SGML, I suppose) and Word is a word-processing application. Word is used to edit compatible files that contain text and/or images (independent of structure), but Docbook describes how your document is going to behave structurally, independent of what apps you use to edit files adhering to that structure. And I have some difficulty imagining my grandmother sitting down to write a short letter using Docbook XML (actually, I wouldn't do that either -- MSWord, for all it's shortcomings, is perfectly sufficient for that task at present :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl E. Anderson mailto:cea@ncipher.com http://www.ncipher.com/ nCipher Corporation Ltd. +44 1223 723690 Fax: +44 1223 723601
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