Re: [docbook-apps] too confused to make progress

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Craig,
No, this list certainly accepts newbie questions.  I'm just not clear where 
to direct you.  The DocBook Wiki pages list several tutorials:

http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookTutorials

It seems many of the DocBook tutorials were written for SGML, or SGML and 
XML.  You should ignore all the SGML stuff and focus on XML documents and 
tools. Perhaps a tutorial on XML would help?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig White" <craig@tobyhouse.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] too confused to make progress


> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:04 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> Looking for any help/directions - sort of Docbook for Dummies thing
>>
>> I'm using Fedora Core 6 and I've got sgml & xml dtd's
>> 3.0/3.1/4.0/4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4 and can't figure out which (if any) to use.
>>
>> I have been using these commands to generate the html/tex files...
>>
>> docbook2html -d docbook-utils.dsl#html make_web2.xml
>> docbook2pdf -d docbook-utils.dsl#print make_web2.xml
>>
>> My objective is to have a set of xml files that I can generate both html
>> & pdf documents for our non-profit agency. I have been going over Norm
>> Walsh's DocBook info and Bob Stayton's Docbook XSL but I think I need
>> more basic than that.
>>
>> So far, I have made the best progress with Eric Raymond's
>> De-Mystification but that is obviously outdated.
>>
>> I have also looked at 'Writing Documentation using Docbook'
>>
>> Is there something more basic than this for beginners?
> ----
> is this the wrong list for newbie questions?
>
> Craig
>
>
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