Re: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc

["Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>]

Hi Steve,
Any chance that some or all of the Docbook to WordML stylesheet could be
contributed to the SourceForge project?  I've been thinking of starting such
a stylesheet, but it would be nice to get a jump start.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ball" <Steve.Ball@zveno.com>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Ben Adams" <benjadams@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc


> Even better would be to have an XSL stylesheet that produces WordML
> from the DocBook source.
> This is what I and another engineer in my company have done for one of
> our clients.
>
> In fact, we're (almost) doing the round-tripping thing - the original
> authoring is done in Word 2003 [*],
> that gets saved as XML (WordML), converted to a more suitable XML
> format (DocBook-like) and
> then converted back into WordML for later editing purposes (as well as
> HTML, PDF, etc).
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Ball
>
> [*] They're actually using Word XP and DocSoft at the moment until such
> time as they upgrade to
> Office 2003.
>
> On 01/10/2004, at 5:41 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> > Another method is to generate an HTML file, open the HTML file in Word
> > 2003,
> > and save it as a .doc file.  That assumes you don't mind manual
> > intervention
> > in the process.
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ben Adams" <benjadams@yahoo.com>
> > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:34 AM
> > Subject: [docbook-apps] docbook and rtf/doc
> >
> >
> >> What is the perferred way to produce rtf or word doc
> >> output?
> >>
> >> I am still on my quest to get my company to start
> >> using docbook instead of word documents, but i just
> >> received a request from higher up that they would like
> >> to review documents in the doc format so they can
> >> inline their comments to the document.
> >>
> >> I am working with the xsltproc -> fop line of tools
> >> right now for pdf output.
> >>
> >> Thanks-
> >> Ben
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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