[texinfo-pretest] Texinfo and Open Office.

[vale.it at tiscali.it]

PDF is not practical for collaborative creation of documents. On the same time I prefer using Texinfo when creating the scratch of documentation, because it has a very immediate system for content creation and organization.

Rendering Texinfo XML or Docbook compatible with OOo, would render Texinfo far more attractive for "non geek" users, because writing Texinfo source is relatively simple and may be performed on any computer or device, without loss of information (such as hyperlinks, logical connections between parts of documents, etc.). And there is no other easy to use and universal documentation system capable to do it.

So, it should be a priority, IMHO.

Bye by Valentino
vale.it at tiscali.it

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:15:55 +0200
Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Halloechen!
> 
> vale.it at tiscali.it writes:
> 
> > Open Office cannot import PDF files, it can only export them.
> >
> > I guess a solution would be to write a XML filter for importing
> > Texinfo XML (or Docbook XML), for the time being.
> 
> I once wrote such an import filter.  It is pretty simple, but due to
> the lot of elements still quite a bit of work.  I don't think that
> the way Texinfo --> OOo is important enough to justify a high
> priority.  Moreover, it is very difficult to implement the other
> way, and it would be inconvenient to use, so using OOo as an
> authoring tool for Texinfo documentation is unrealistic.  If you
> want to share your Texinfo documents with others, use PDF, since it
> cannot be edited anyway.
> 
> Last but not least, OOo should be able to import Docbook and HTML,
> and Texinfo is able to export that.  If there is sill a problem with
> the Docbook filter, well, then you have to wait for a better one I'm
> afraid.
> 
> Tschoe,
> Torsten.
> 
> -- 
> Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus
>