New DocBook support (0002)

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Mon Jun 29 11:37:47 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 01:14:44PM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> 
> My original plan was just to allow export. If you want to view the document
> as-is (i.e. without transforming it further, as the XSLT sheets would do, for
> instance by generating HTML or PDF files), you would have to resort to XML
> editors with WYSIWYM support (XMLmind, Oxygen, XMetaL, all of which are
> commercial -- I don't know any other that's still actively developed), that's
> not software you'd expect to find broadly.

I see, it can be export only if you think that's what is in general expected.

Pavel


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