David
Tolpin has announced PreTI, a set of open-source Java-based,
Relax NG-driven authoring tools that "implements a different
approach to input of structured documents." Currently available are
both a PreTI jEdit plugin (docs) and a toolkit (docs) for creating "markup rules" useful with
PreTI implementations.
Tolpin writes that PreTI is based on
three key assumptions:
a written document
conveys information about its structure by means of the human
language
the role of markup is to follow the
document's structure, not to define it
the tags are
for computers; no one would read a text marked in DocBook, instead
of a plain flow of words, sentences, and paragraphs, just to
understand it
Time will tell if PreTI turns out to be as usable and
successful as the last major project Tolpin focused his energies on:
the commercial XSL-FO rendering engine XEP (he worked on it
for four years as CTO and develpment lead).
the site seems to be down. no chance to evaluate this. still asking myself whether this is some kind of "WYSIWYG" or just another "easy input of xml" tool