On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:04:01 +0100
Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 26 June 2006 17:22, John Coppens wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I was trying to make a manpage with LyX 1.4.1, so I started a new doc
> > with the docbook manpage layout. I did a few sections, and exported to
> > SGML. The generated SGML had an extra '>' at the beginning:
> >
> > -----------
> >
> >
> > <manpage><!-- LyX 1.4.1 created this file. For more info see
> > http://www.lyx.org <sect1>NAME
> > -----------
> >
> > which caused sgml2txt to cough... But there were many other problems:
> 
>   You found a bug. :-(

Hello José.

Should I officially submit this as a bug-report?
 
>   To avoid this notice that manpage_linuxdoc example as
> title="LyX" sectnum="1"
> 
> as Document->Settings->Options
> 
>   this will fix at least this problem.

I'm not sure which problem this solves - there are still many error
messages left (see attachment)

> > Apparently the </item> tag isn't generated... I wonder if I'm doing
> > things completely wrong here? I found a HowTo on using LyX for DocBook
> > things, but it was quite old (announcing LyX 1.2
> > http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/)
> 
>   Notice that this uses linuxdoc not docbook. I intend to obsolete this
> layout with another based on docbook, and have lyx2lyx do the
> convertion so it will still generated valid document even after
> linuxdoc is removed.

Is there a layout for manpages in docbook? I could find only 'Article',
'Book', 'Chapter' and 'Section' for docbook.
 
> > I also found references that XML is now preferred to SGML for DocBook,
> > but found no way to export that.
> 
>   I intend to add this layout this Summer.
> 
> > Thanks in advance
> > John
> 
> -- 
> José Abílio

John

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