I have a personal project using docbook as a central point for producing pdf and ebooks (epub and mobi (drm-less)). This is a free ruleset for wargaming with little figurines. See my website dedicated to this work in progress: http://bloodandblades.com/
Epub is relatively easy and works rather well, in a direct manner. Mobi, I got from epub with calibre, but the graphics are problematic (on my old Kindle 4 touchless). The pdf, I cannot produce directly, so one against I got it from epub, which is not the best way to get it in a perfect world. The docbook handling is a free project of itself. It is there : https://github.com/psiloi/tiddlybook The recipe for making file are all in the Makefile. I would appreciate any help to improve my output methods. I also haven't been able to support entities in my docbook. I find the official documentation lacking example in this repect, more complete example. A simpl "hello world" docbook with one or two entities would greatly help me. 2015-09-15 8:44 GMT+02:00 Fekete, Róbert <robert.fek...@balabit.com>: > Hi Stefan, > > I have a question about how your HTML docs work: > For example, at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/tutorial.html > there is a list of multiple books and a search bar on the left. Is this > part external to docbook, or do you use some webhelp tweak to do it? (I've > been trying to use webhelp with <set> to achieve similar results, but > couldn't sort out all the bugs so far.) > > Thanks! > > Robert > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Stefan Hinz <stefan.h...@oracle.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 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! >>> >> >> The MySQL documentation is created and maintained in DocBook XML. The >> entry point to the docs is here: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ >> >> As you can see, we build a lot of formats from DocBook, including Unix >> man pages which are created from the same source as the rest of the formats >> (most documentation teams maintain man pages separately). >> >> Last time we cared to do a detailed analysis of our stuff was in 2009; >> here's a summary: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-about.html >> >> It's only become more in every respect, more products to cover, more >> books, more pages, more complexity. We get the "why don't you use X >> instead, it's so much better" question every once in a while, but DocBook >> has been working remarkably well for us for more than a decade, and it >> scales, so we have no plans to move away from it anytime soon. >> >> Reasons to consider DocBook in the first place included Norm's ( >> http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html) and Bob's ( >> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/) great books, by the way. :-) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Stefan >> >> -- >> Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> >> Stefan Hinz, MySQL Documentation Manager >> Oracle MySQL <http://dev.mysql.com/doc> >> Berlin, Germany, +49-30-82702940 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org >> >> > -- Jean-Pierre
