New DocBook support (0002)

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Mon Jun 29 10:55:24 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > This is now in.
> > I see in https://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware that we used to require
> > SGML tools for Docbook. This is no more the case and we can delete it,
> > correct?
> 
> Absolutely, there is no requirement for this implementation to work. You
> will need an XSLT processor and DocBook sheets to make something out of the
> DocBook document, but that's after LyX (just like you need a Web browser
> for the HTML output).

So as a novice user who installs LyX on his machine, who wants to see the output
with new docbook machinery, what programs/packages hee needs to install to have some
meaningful options to see the result when he chooses Document->View->Docbook?
Or is the plan to have only File->Export->Docbook option?

Pavel


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