Thanks for the help. docboo2pdf works with sgml eg
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">
<article>
<sect1 id="introduction"><title>Hello world introduction</title>
<para>
Hello world!
</para>
</sect1>
</article>
I found some good links which may be of some use to somebody:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/docbook-guide/basic-docbook-guide.html.en
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-docbk.html
-Paul
On Friday 29 November 2002 08:19 am, James Grant wrote:
> passivetex on mandrake 9.0 is screwed even when it is installed.
>
> Use the SGML toolchain rather than the newer and perhaps less mature XML
> toolchain:
> jade -V paper-type=A4 -t tex -d \
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/print/docbook.dsl \
> /usr/share/sgml/xml.dcl docbook.xml
> jadetex docbook.tex
> dvipdf docbook.dvi
>
> which'll give you docbook.pdf :)
>
> Oh, and the db2pdf etc commands only work for SGML, they don't work with
> XML, you need that extra declaration file or whatever.
>
> passivetex actually works on Red Hat I believe, and there's a nice utility
> called "xmlto" which does DocBook XML->PDF for you.
>
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:23, Paul wrote:
> > Micheal, thanks very much for the help, unfortuanlly it didnt work, even
> > more conflicts....
