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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Building books with variables in them
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 02:32:01AM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote: > I have just got started with docbook, and I am building a pair of books for > Ethereal. In the longer term, I envision using DocBook for all my > documentation, including my Samba course etc. > > I am using the RH Linux 6.2 tools. > > I want to be able to do the following: > > 1. pass parameters in from the command line so I can change things like > the latest version through a command line switch > > Can I do this? OpenJade allows you to set the value of entities from the command line (unlike Jade, which only lets you turn on marked sections). So switch to OpenJade if that's feasible. > 2. Graphics look better on the printed page if they are scaled to 50-60 > percent, but on a web site they look better as a thumbnail that the > user clicks on to get the full image. > > How can I arrange it so I get different things happening with HTML vs > PDF? > > 3. Depending on who the documentation is for, I want different cover pages, > headers and footers, etc. > > How can I arrange to do all this? Marked sections. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/ for details. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery
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