On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Mark Stodola wrote:
Does anyone have any recent experience writing documentation in docbook with
current tools?
I'm in the process of updating a user manual that I wrote several user ago in
docbook xml that used xsltproc, fop, and docbook 4.1.x definitions. It looks
like I've fallen behind and new tools are around. A search shows that
supposedly TUV is using a tool set called Publican, but information is
scarce. I also see docbook-utils and docbook-utils-pdf as available
packages. Grabbing the latest fop and definitions is giving me quite a
screen full of errors. There must be an easier way by now. I'd like to
continue to generate html, pdf, and ps output at a minimum.
What are people using for a tool chain these days?
I prefer AsciiDoc for writing/collaborating on documentation. And am
working on an ODF backend for AsciiDoc so you can go directly from
AsciiDoc to ODF to PDF/DOC/... while styling through LibreOffice.
http://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf
AsciiDoc converts to HTML by default.
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
But since AsciiDoc translates well to DocBook, you can go from
AsciiDoc to DocBook to FOP to PDF, as you're used to.
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