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Subject: Newbie's therapy
When I first tried docbook, back in 1999, I remember I had a very hard time with it and quit. At that time I had RedHat 6.2. A couple of weeks ago I thought I should try it again. Debian 3.0. "apt-get install docbook-xml docbook-doc docbook-dsssl docbook-xsl-stylesheets docbook-utils jade openjade xalan ..." Everything installs with an ease that Microsoft would envy, but nothing works in the end. Three days of total frustration. It is terrible for a newbie to have to read for endless hours in order to decide whether they should first try jade, openjade, xalan, saxon, etc. etc., and whether they should use dsssl, xsl, or css, and when they attempt any of those to run into really serious problems. So far I've only had some success with xalan and xsl. Could you please give me a hint on which tools you'd recommend, and a couple of guidelines to get me going? Thanks! And I promise I'll flood you with more specific questions afterwards :-)
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