Hello all, An update on the manual XML editor situation. I sent an email to the folks at oXygen and explained that I needed a tool for an open source product manual and without any questions or sales pitch they provided me with a license that I will be using to write our Koha manual!! I will write up a blog post about this thanking the kind folks at oXygen, but I wanted to let you all know that I have found a solution to our problem and hopefully won't need another tool ever again (since oXygen is so powerful!). Thanks Nicole C. Engard Koha Documentation Manager
Great news \o/ Thank you oXygen and good job Nicole. God bless us all. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
An update on the manual XML editor situation. I sent an email to the folks at oXygen and explained that I needed a tool for an open source product manual and without any questions or sales pitch they provided me with a license that I will be using to write our Koha manual!! I will write up a blog post about this thanking the kind folks at oXygen, but I wanted to let you all know that I have found a solution to our problem and hopefully won't need another tool ever again (since oXygen is so powerful!).
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Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
I will write up a blog post about this thanking the kind folks at oXygen, but I wanted to let you all know that I have found a solution to our problem and hopefully won't need another tool ever again (since oXygen is so powerful!).
I'm glad you found something that works for you for now, but I think you should keep one eye on the exit path and exit costs because proprietary software is an unsustainable business model. It's likely that you will need another tool some day. That said, I don't have a GUI DocBook editor to offer you just now. I think qe and abiword used to edit it WYSIWYG but I've not tried them in ages. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
MJ Ray schreef op di 09-10-2012 om 15:11 [+0100]:
I'm glad you found something that works for you for now, but I think you should keep one eye on the exit path and exit costs because proprietary software is an unsustainable business model. It's likely that you will need another tool some day.
There is a great example of the problems this can cause from a few years ago, where the company behind the source code management system that Linux used pulled their free licenses. On the flip side, it did get us git, which Koha uses for development. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bitmover_ends_free_Bitkeeper,_replacement_sought... It's this kind of thing that users of Koha don't have to worry about :) -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D
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