Re: DOCBOOK: where to get tools

[Brendan J Simon <Brendan.Simon@ctam.com.au>]

Silverstein wrote:

> I came across a reference to docBook and thought I'd try it out.  But I
> have to say I've been frustrated in trying to get going.
>
> I haven an SGI running IRIX and a Windows NT system.  I went to the
> oasis site and the docbook site and have made little progress.  Can
> someone tell me if the following makes sense to do.
>
> - get jade
> - get some docbook docs
> - try to use jade to build examples
>
> is jade and/or other docbook tools available for the SGI (irix)?  Or do
> I have to use linux?

I'm pretty sure that jade and jadetex are opensource.
Got to James Clark's web page.  He is the author of Jade.
http://www.jclark.com/