[docbook-apps] Tools for DocBook authoring by non-hackers

["Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh at logicsquad dot net>]

Hello,

I am interested to know what (Microsoft Windows-based) tools people
are using to allow non-hackers to author DocBook documents.  (By
non-hackers, I mean people who almost certainly have never used a
command line, and whose document authoring experience is probably
limited to Microsoft Word.)

I have an upcoming Word->DocBook conversion project in which one of
the requirements will almost certainly be that my involvement is a
one-off, and I will need to leave an environment (probably just on a
single machine) where new documents can be authored, and the various
output formats can be generated, by office staff whose computing
skills are probably limited to Microsoft applications.  Training will
be possible, and there's not necessarily a requirement that the
application be completely hand-holding and WYSIWYG, but the command
lines and Makefiles that we are all comfortable with will be out of
the question, as will editing raw XML.

The solution does not need to be free, but it needs to be robust.  I
have a personal preference for XEP as the FO renderer, though if
people are successfully using some other more integrated solution, I
am willing to look at anything.

What products should I be looking at?


-- 
Paul.

mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net
mailto:phoadley@maths.adelaide.edu.au

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