Hello all, Back when I started working on the manual someone here recommended XXE Personal Edition which was free for those working on open source projects. Well this is no longer the case. Either because of this, or the size of the manual, I can no longer save the manual when editing it in XXE (or I guess it could be a problem on my computer). Without commentary on my operating system ... I need a recommendation for a free (or cheap) WYSIWYG XML/Docbook editor that will run on Mac OSX. I got some recommendations - one for Lyx, which actually doesn't open or edit XML or Docbook (I have it installed and did try). Another was for Vex which I was able to install, but can't get to open the manual XML file I have. Others have said Oxygen but that's $500+ and I can't afford that. So, my criteria is simple - I need to be able to edit the manual as one document (because of the linking between sections) and the editor has to be WYSIWYG (I don't have time to write out the Docbook Code) and it has to validate Docbook and finally it has to run on Mac. As 3.10 looms closer I really need to get back to editing the manual and adding all of the new features, so send those ideas ASAP! Thanks in advance for any recommendations. Nicole
Nicole, I just downloaded a Koha manual snapshot (English) and opened it with LibreOffice. I could edit, add images, save it. However, I did not do much testing, but I think it is worth a try. http://www.libreoffice.org Marc Am 05.10.2012 17:08, schrieb Nicole Engard:
Hello all,
Back when I started working on the manual someone here recommended XXE Personal Edition which was free for those working on open source projects. Well this is no longer the case. Either because of this, or the size of the manual, I can no longer save the manual when editing it in XXE (or I guess it could be a problem on my computer).
Without commentary on my operating system ... I need a recommendation for a free (or cheap) WYSIWYG XML/Docbook editor that will run on Mac OSX. I got some recommendations - one for Lyx, which actually doesn't open or edit XML or Docbook (I have it installed and did try). Another was for Vex which I was able to install, but can't get to open the manual XML file I have. Others have said Oxygen but that's $500+ and I can't afford that.
So, my criteria is simple - I need to be able to edit the manual as one document (because of the linking between sections) and the editor has to be WYSIWYG (I don't have time to write out the Docbook Code) and it has to validate Docbook and finally it has to run on Mac.
As 3.10 looms closer I really need to get back to editing the manual and adding all of the new features, so send those ideas ASAP!
Thanks in advance for any recommendations. Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
I'm not sure it's working right for me. Did you have an extension installed? I opened the manual.xml file and I can read and edit it, but it doesn't look right. I'm not able to tell what's a section heading and what's a paragraph. Am I missing something? Nicole On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Marc Véron <veron@veron.ch> wrote:
Nicole,
I just downloaded a Koha manual snapshot (English) and opened it with LibreOffice. I could edit, add images, save it.
However, I did not do much testing, but I think it is worth a try.
Marc
Am 05.10.2012 17:08, schrieb Nicole Engard:
Hello all,
Back when I started working on the manual someone here recommended XXE Personal Edition which was free for those working on open source projects. Well this is no longer the case. Either because of this, or the size of the manual, I can no longer save the manual when editing it in XXE (or I guess it could be a problem on my computer).
Without commentary on my operating system ... I need a recommendation for a free (or cheap) WYSIWYG XML/Docbook editor that will run on Mac OSX. I got some recommendations - one for Lyx, which actually doesn't open or edit XML or Docbook (I have it installed and did try). Another was for Vex which I was able to install, but can't get to open the manual XML file I have. Others have said Oxygen but that's $500+ and I can't afford that.
So, my criteria is simple - I need to be able to edit the manual as one document (because of the linking between sections) and the editor has to be WYSIWYG (I don't have time to write out the Docbook Code) and it has to validate Docbook and finally it has to run on Mac.
As 3.10 looms closer I really need to get back to editing the manual and adding all of the new features, so send those ideas ASAP!
Thanks in advance for any recommendations. Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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Nicole, you are right, LibreOffice seems not to be a good tool to edit Docbook. Sorry for the mistake. I did some more research for Docbook authoring tools and found following link: http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookAuthoringTools From this list, I tried out Serna (Open Source version) and had a much better impression. It is available for Mac. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sernafree.mirror/ Marc Am 05.10.2012 19:30, schrieb Nicole Engard:
I'm not sure it's working right for me. Did you have an extension installed? I opened the manual.xml file and I can read and edit it, but it doesn't look right. I'm not able to tell what's a section heading and what's a paragraph. Am I missing something?
Nicole
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Marc Véron <veron@veron.ch> wrote:
Nicole,
I just downloaded a Koha manual snapshot (English) and opened it with LibreOffice. I could edit, add images, save it.
However, I did not do much testing, but I think it is worth a try.
Marc
Am 05.10.2012 17:08, schrieb Nicole Engard:
Hello all,
Back when I started working on the manual someone here recommended XXE Personal Edition which was free for those working on open source projects. Well this is no longer the case. Either because of this, or the size of the manual, I can no longer save the manual when editing it in XXE (or I guess it could be a problem on my computer).
Without commentary on my operating system ... I need a recommendation for a free (or cheap) WYSIWYG XML/Docbook editor that will run on Mac OSX. I got some recommendations - one for Lyx, which actually doesn't open or edit XML or Docbook (I have it installed and did try). Another was for Vex which I was able to install, but can't get to open the manual XML file I have. Others have said Oxygen but that's $500+ and I can't afford that.
So, my criteria is simple - I need to be able to edit the manual as one document (because of the linking between sections) and the editor has to be WYSIWYG (I don't have time to write out the Docbook Code) and it has to validate Docbook and finally it has to run on Mac.
As 3.10 looms closer I really need to get back to editing the manual and adding all of the new features, so send those ideas ASAP!
Thanks in advance for any recommendations. Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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On 2012-10-6, at 5:12 AM, Marc Véron wrote:
Nicole,
I just downloaded a Koha manual snapshot (English) and opened it with LibreOffice. I could edit, add images, save it.
hmm, whats the url?
However, I did not do much testing, but I think it is worth a try.
Marc
On 2012-10-6, at 4:08 AM, Nicole Engard wrote:
Hello all,
Back when I started working on the manual someone here recommended XXE Personal Edition which was free for those working on open source projects. Well this is no longer the case. Either because of this, or the size of the manual, I can no longer save the manual when editing it in XXE (or I guess it could be a problem on my computer).
have you tried increasing the memory, following these instructions? "Q: XXE freezes when I try to open large XML files. Is there a workaround for this problem? A: This is probably an out-of-memory error due to the fact that your XML file is very, very, large or contains loads of high-resolution images. By default, XXE is configured to use at most 512 megabytes. This limit can be increased but this requires you to edit a script file using a text editor" http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#outofmemory
Without commentary on my operating system ... I need a recommendation for a free (or cheap) WYSIWYG XML/Docbook editor that will run on Mac OSX. I got some recommendations - one for Lyx, which actually doesn't open or edit XML or Docbook (I have it installed and did try). Another was for Vex which I was able to install, but can't get to open the manual XML file I have. Others have said Oxygen but that's $500+ and I can't afford that.
So, my criteria is simple - I need to be able to edit the manual as one document (because of the linking between sections) and the editor has to be WYSIWYG (I don't have time to write out the Docbook Code) and it has to validate Docbook and finally it has to run on Mac.
As 3.10 looms closer I really need to get back to editing the manual and adding all of the new features, so send those ideas ASAP!
Thanks in advance for any recommendations. Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
cheers, Mason -- KohaAloha, NZ
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com> wrote:
have you tried increasing the memory, following these instructions?
"Q: XXE freezes when I try to open large XML files. Is there a workaround for this problem?
A: This is probably an out-of-memory error due to the fact that your XML file is very, very, large or contains loads of high-resolution images.
By default, XXE is configured to use at most 512 megabytes. This limit can be increased but this requires you to edit a script file using a text editor"
Thanks Mason, I'll give that a whirl. Everyone else, I did install Serna but it too has some trouble with the manual and is very hard to read when in WYSIWYG mode. Nicole
Mason's tip seemed to do the trick for now!! :) I will continue to use XXE since it has been good to me (up until now). Thanks again for all the help and recommendations!! Nicole
I haven't tried it for a while, but the free version of Serna Editor might be something worth investigating. It is licensed under the GPL, but there is not much of a community behind it as far as I can see. Their website has recently changed and there is no mention of the free version anymore - looks like something has changed with the company. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sernafree.mirror/ It does DocBook and DITA, and a version is available for the Mac. I was able to import the manual with it. David Nind | david.nind@gmail.com PO Box 12367, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand 6144 h. +64 4 9720 600 | m. +64 21 0537 847 | w. +64 4 8906 098
a full list of xml editors can be found here; http://www.xml-editor.info <http://www.xml-editor.info> . For Mac, I would suggest Komondo Edit. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/WYSIWYG-XML-Editor-Help-tp5729022p5732221.... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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