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- From: J B Bell <cipher at eschatek dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:07:09 -0700
- Subject: DOCBOOK: docbook for RPGs
The long view: I've written a role-playing game with a co-author (who
is shortly likely to be fairly annoyed with me for exploring this
angle), and I'm trying to release it under a GPL-like license. Thus,
I'm interested in an open standard, and currently that is HTML. (Yeah,
yeah, groan, ick, I know.)
So I'm interested in using docbook, I'm convinced docbook is better than
peanut butter, etc., and not surprisingly, this over-enthusiastic newby
has some questions for the list.
1. Is there any sort of "dialog mode" set of tags? Game examples often
have entries where one party is talking to another, and the names are
set off, followed by a colon and the text of their speech, alternating
back and forth. QandA doesn't seem to be the right tag.
2. What's the state of conversion tools? PDF is a publication mode very
common for online-distributed games anymore. The very kind Norman Walsh
mentions that xml2pdf has "shortcomings"--I'm not too particular about
how this thing is going to look, but I should arm myself beforehand.
3. What about free editing stuff? I have xemacs but it fills me with
liquid fear. But I don't relish pumping in all those tags by hand.
Thanks all for your kind attention.
--JB
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