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DocBook seems to be nice, but is there a Tool that helps using it? I mean something that would instantly show how it looks or allows editing more easily by selecting a word and then hitting a button to format it somehow, or to enter a paragraph, a index, a footnote, whatever.

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Try dbkeditor. It's intended to help someone learn how to write docbooks XML format. It's not too fancy, but does help with some of the complexity. Runs as a standalone jar.

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Get Yelp. It opens Docbook files natively, renders them nicely, shows a browseable tree-view of the document on the left, and reloads instantly when you hit control-R.

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How would you author with this?? – DaveParillo Dec 3 '09 at 0:45
It's a viewer, not an editor. I assumed when he said "instantly show how it looks" I thought that's all he wanted. For editing, any XML editor will do. If you need WYSIWYG, then buy FrameMaker. – Ken Dec 3 '09 at 0:51
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LyX is what you're looking for.

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