On Wed, 21 November 2001, "Peter Nosko" wrote: > > > From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > I did get the e-mail earlier, just forgot to reply :( > > pn] BTDT. > > > > > software. I'd like a more active format like html or even Adobe > > Acrobat. > > > > This is where doc-book comes in. I don't know if there are > > decent tools for > > writing Doc-Book formatted documents on windows yet, but once written, it > > translates cleanly to plain-text, HTML, PDF, and probalby other formats... > > pn] Never heard of Doc-Book. I'm running SuSE Linux 7.1 and can put up any > version of RH. Are there tools on these platforms for Doc-Book?
I know that Red Hat and debian have doc book tools. In all probability SUSE does as well. > > IMHO, if we don't write in Doc-Book, we should probably just use > > plain text. > > pn] I'll have to see if I can find a source format that easily makes other > formats. I really like PDFs because they can be active or printed in plain > 'ole hard-copy. I've personally moved beyond from using fingers/toes in > printed docs to loving links in active electronic docs. But I understand > that when you're at the command line (which I still love), PDFs can be > frowned upon. The nice thing about about doc book is that it's write once, convert to anything. I wasn't able to spend a lot of time with it, but here is a basic run down. It's like writing HTML pages by hand. There are tools out there, I just couldn't figure them out last year, though I would probably have better luck. Download the example template and fill in the blanks. <title>How to write</title> <author>Joe Doe</author> <main> <section1> etc and so on. The nice thing is, all the source is in text format, so it is easily modified. The hardest thing for me to get my mind around was that you did not do any formatting. Instead the template did. There are paragraph tags, emphasize tags, descriptions, titles, section headings tags, etc. When you are done writing, you run it through a format convertor (Openjade) and according to the conversation rules it will convert it to whateevr you want. PDF?, no problem, HTML? One document or each section in it's own page?, staight text? here you go. Very nice stuff. > > See any of the many linux HOWTO's at linuxdoc, including the HOWTO-HOWTO, > > which discusses writing documents using the DocBook format. > --- > Peter Nosko They have a mailling list too. -sp _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
