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Re: epcEdit
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:09:29AM +0900, Michael Smith wrote:
> Dislikes:
>
> * non-Free software
For those who want a free-software gui, we're looking for help on the
ThotBook project (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/thotbook/) -
nothing to test right now, though.
> Likes:
> * cross-platform (Linux, Solaris, Windows)
Should be possible, it will be based on Thot, which also works on
Windows, as shown by the Amaya HTML editor.
> * WYSIWYG editing of CALS/OASIS Exchange Table Model and HTML tables
Yes.
> * control over character formatting during on-screen editing (but
> using a non-standard stylesheet language -- not CSS)
Same, but CSS is planned for the future.
> * works with full SGML as well as XML
> * support for SGML Open/OASIS catalog files
Planned
> * can display railroad diagrams for any element in a DTD
> http://www.logopoeia.com/xml/images/railroad.png
> * automatic population of browsable lists of valid ID values for
> attributes whose type is IDREF (like DocBook's linkend and
> endterm attributes)
> http://www.logopoeia.com/images/idrefBrowseEpcEdit.png
> * support for drag-and-drop of text and elements
> * Unicode support
Nice ideas, worth implementing, but we'd like to focus on more
essential stuff to get to a first working version ASAP.
--
Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/
Free-Software Engineer Ingénieur Logiciel-Libre
Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre
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