[texinfo-pretest] Texinfo and Open Office.

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

vale.it at tiscali.it writes:

> 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.

So you begin with Texinfo and then switch to OOo and stay with it?

> 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.

My experience is that any text based systems that are not at least
in the vicinity of WYSIWYG systems are unattractive.  But be that as
it may, wait for a working Docbook import filter.  I think anything
else would be re-inventing the wheel (apart from the fact that
Texinfo --> Docbook is not totally lossless).

Tschoe,
Torsten.

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