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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: looking to document docbook preparation andpresentation on red hat
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:48:53AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > hmmm ... that's not at all obvious from the "rpm -qi" on that RPM, or from > > the man pages of the included binaries, which suggest pretty strongly that > > those binaries are SGML-only. perhaps the man pages should be modified > > to make this clearer. > > Now that I think about it more, there are some transformations that jw > doesn't handle in XML---they are the ones that use perl-SGMLSpm, so > that's man and texinfo. I think the other destination formats should > work in XML though since they use openjade. ok, so i'm getting a clearer picture. again, what i really wanted to document was very much the *minimal* configuration one needs to start writing docbook in XML, and generating the most common output formats, without overloading the poor newbie (i.e., me :-) with a lot of information he or she doesn't need to know. so far, then, i can conclude that i don't care about SGML, and i can pass on DSSSL and concentrate on XSL. that makes for a more concise doc. any other advice? rday
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