While looking up some DocBook information, I ran across this: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/docbook.html It is the complete text of "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" by O'Reilly. I thought it would make a good reference for this forum. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Dan York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [e-smith doc] FYI - SGML template for HOWTOs now available When someone (such as any of you) comes up with a HOWTO document that is hosted at their own site, all I need is a URL that I can add to the list. But when the person asks if we can host it here on www.e-smith.org, I am often asked what format I would like the document in. The truth is that I don't really care - since I want to make it as easy as possible on the person writing the documentation and I appreciate the fact that they are going to write up the documentation in the first place. Having said that, though, receiving Microsoft Word files (I have!) is not particularly helpful... I have to open it up in StarOffice and then export it to HTML. (and the HTML I've seen through that process is *really* ugly!) So I really prefer to receive HTML files or text files. Even more ideal, though, is if somone wants to markup a file in DocBook SGML and send it to me. That way I can take that SGML file and generate HTML and PDF extremely easily. It's easiest for me that way. To help with that, I put up a sample template and text on: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/ under the heading "Contributing documentation". The template is specifically at: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/template-howto.sgml I don't know if anyone will actually use it, but I'm now making it available in case someone wants to. At some point in the future I'll be writing up a longer description of how we develop our documents internally, which will include references to DocBook and the various tools we use to process it. Regards, Dan -- Dan York, Director of Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +1-613-751-4401 Mobile: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-564-7739 e-smith, inc. 150 Metcalfe St., Suite 1500, Ottawa,ON K2P 1P1 Canada http://www.e-smith.com/ open source, open mind --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
