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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Newbie: Producing indexed eBooks with DocBook?
[ Follow-ups to docbook-apps, please. ] / Thomas Nichols <thomas.nichols@iname.com> was heard to say: | However, I'm unclear how I actually "publish" to HTML, and from the manual | I get the impression that I need a fairly detailed grasp of DSSSL to do | this, using maybe Jade as a tool. Is this right? I think I would then get Yes, using Jade and the DSSSL stylesheets, and a little Perl, you can get your indexterms into your document. | generation of an index from the IndexTerms I specified - what about an | automatically-generated index of all words (except those in a list I supply)? I don't know of a tool that builds indexes that way. | An alternative seems to be to use docbook2X (docbook2texi) and then | texi2html -- is this also feasible? Would this build the index for me? I have no idea. | And then there are the commercial options - do tools like Framemaker | support both near-WYSIWYG editing and also HTML publishing? Whilst I'll | happily use XEmacs / PSGML / Norm.Walsh's DocBook IDE if that's an | appropriate option, what I'd prefer is a tool which shields me from some of | the underlying wizardry -- that can be a commercial tool if necessary. I'm | checking out the features of the tools mentioned as supporting DocBook. Arbortext's Epic product line includes a fairly sophisticated and complete DocBook application. (Disclaimer: I used to work for them.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The most universal quality is http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | diversity.--Montaigne Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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