Existing Authoring Tools

Capo

Image taken from here:  http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/

DBB's STD

Image taken from here:  http://www.dbb.dk/Software/std.asp

Sigtuna DAR

Lots of small screenshots here:  http://www.daisy.org/dkn/paths/all-modules-by-topic.html#12

Linear list-view of text "events":

LP Studio PRO

Dolphin's Ease Publisher

Features:  http://www.yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=12&z=1

Image taken from here:  http://www.daisy.org/dkn/modules/daisy.tools.production.overview.2005/page11.html

Image taken from here:  http://www.yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=12&z=6

SlideShare (slide + audio synchronization)

Note the full versus partial waveform audio view:

Video authoring

Note the timeline + channels metaphor:

Note the navigator view at the top, which provides a higher abstraction level to the timeline (full overview):

TubeCaption?

HyperEngine-AV (multiple windows)

Acoustic Labs (multiple panes)

!LimSee2 (generic/non-specialized SMIL authoring)

Transcriber: the inverse authoring scenario

SoundSlides

generic XML editing: tags and TOC (Syntex Serna)

Oxygen XML editor

DocBook mode:

XmlMind DocBook + MathML

Note the spell-checking:

List of XML editors

WYSIWYG vs WYSIWYM

Mono-Develop (docked UI + addin/plugin repository manager)

Narrator (just a nice UI)

Microsoft WYSIWYG HTML editor

More to see and read

 http://www.sydock.com/asp/products/info/features.asp?mode=all

 http://www.oxygenxml.com/wysiwyg_xml_editor.html

 http://www.liquid-technologies.com/Product_XmlStudio_ScreenShots.aspx

 http://www.altova.com/products/xmlspy/xml_editing.html

 http://www.editix.com/gallery.html

 http://www.epcedit.com/Products/Description/Technical/Screen_Shots/screen_shots.html

 http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/screenshots.html

Future perspectives

Accessible mindmap: