Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

[Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Katie Welles wrote:
>
> > Have any of you PDF + HTML output with Docbook? If anyone has such a 
> > project and will be willing to show it off, send some URLs!
>
> We use it for most of the FreeBSD documentation:
> https://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html
>
> The FreeBSD Handbook is the most famous:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

> The Porter's Handbook is also a full book:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
>
> We also have a book for people contributing to the documentation:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html
>
> DocBook, XSLT, and Fop are used to generate HTML, PDF, plain text, 
> PostScript, RTF, and some compressed versions of those.

For comparison, PDFs (zip-compressed) of the documents above:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.pdf.zip
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.pdf.zip
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/book.pdf.zip

> > As an aside: Have any of you used asciidoc?
>
> I use AsciiDoc for my own articles:
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/

These articles all have both HTML and PDF links.