DocBook editor / IDE tools

[Jonathan Dill]

Matthew East wrote:
> Cool, welcome! Take a look at our page at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Contribute and see if you'd like to
> integrate something there. If not, perhaps https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocBook could
> be improved. If not that, how about a subpage of it? Whatever you feel is most
> appropriate. 
>   
I found there is an "Editing Programs" section at the bottom of the 
DocBook page, so I think I could expand on that, or perhaps "hive that 
off" onto a separate page if I come up with enough stuff.  I sent an 
e-mail to Christoph Haas about the page, welcoming his input and 
suggestions.

I think it might be good to make some distinction between packages that 
are in the Ubuntu repository vs. other tools that must be installed from 
source code or require java for e.g.  I suspect it would be a Good Thing 
(tm) to encourage use of tools that are part of the distro for 
maintaining the distro's documentation in terms of community support and 
helping people with problems.  Not that there is anything wrong with 
using jEdit for example, but people shouldn't necessarily expect lots of 
help from the Ubuntu community if they have a problem with it, they 
should go to the jEdit community to resolve those problems--a link to 
the jEdit forums would be helpful in that case.

Thanks,
Jonathan