Bug#154662: ITP: docbook-ide -- An Emacs major mode for editing DocBook documents
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:45:23AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> So docbook-ide is just psgml-mode with the DTD embedded? I can live
> without downloading the DTD twice, since I'll have it installed anyway
> if I'm editing docbook documents.
No, docbookide has more than an embedded DTD. Just to be clear, a
"DTD" does not come with docbookide. Rather, it has within it's code
the logic of the DTD. Given that Norm Walsh wrote docbookide, I trust
him as an expert of docbook.
> > * 'docbook-complete' function for inserting element and attribute
> psgml-mode does this (sgml-insert-element, C-c C-e)...
> > * Automatic completion of end-tags
> ...and this.
I need to learn more about psgml, then, since I didn't see those on my
brief, initial testing. OTOH, the only SGML documents that I create
are docbook documents.
> > * Comprehensive abbreviations table to further ease typing
> Does that just mean keybindings?
No, the logic processes abbreviations and transformed the input into
full names.
Also, docbookide includes automatic insertion of subfields, such as
firstname,lastname fields when starting an author field, or title
fields when starting a section field.
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