Re: [docbook] First Attempt at Writing a Manual Not Going Well

[Robert McIlvride <robert@cogent.ca>]

Hi Brian,

>     (Not really DocBook)  Where can I learn about ENTITY?  Can I
>     use it as a sort of macro system for things I don't want to
>     type fifteen times?  Chapter 2 of O'Reilly's DocBook is, again,
>     incomprehensible.  All it does is give a link to some useless
>     document at oasis-open.org.

I feel your pain.  Here's our attempt to explain/understand entities:

http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-entities.html

Hang in there.  It's well worth the steep learning curve.

Cheerio!

Bob

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Robert McIlvride (robert@cogent.ca)
Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)