Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Hi Katie, On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Katie Welles wrote: > ... > > 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! > > https://docs.funambol.com/ This is a portal basing

[docbook-apps] dblatex (was Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook)

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, maxwell wrote: On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, Warren Block wrote: The FreeBSD DocBook toolchain almost supports dblatex, but the older versions did not have all the features we needed for PDFs. Table of contents and some other things, as I recall. We now have a port of the latest

RE: [docbook-apps] dblatex (was Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook)

.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] dblatex (was Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook) On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, maxwell wrote: > On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> The FreeBSD DocBook toolchain almost supports dblatex, but the older >> versions did not hav

Re: [docbook-apps] dblatex (was Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook)

Hi, It seems that xelatex is not found when dblatex tries to run it. To check what happens, append -V to the dblatex command to print out the actual command runned that fails. We can investigate further but I suggest to switch to the dblatex mailing list for this. Regards, BG On Wed, 16

Re: [docbook-apps] dblatex (was Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook)

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, ben.guillon wrote: Hi, It seems that xelatex is not found when dblatex tries to run it. To check what happens, append -V to the dblatex command to print out the actual command runned that fails. We can investigate further but I suggest to switch to the dblatex mailing

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

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

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

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

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Hi Jean-Pierre, > 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. Here is an example of defining and using

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On 2015-09-14 03:07, Eric Streit wrote: I tried DBLaTeX: the output is better, but it's only docbook 4. Not sure what you mean here. You mean you're still working in DB4? I vaguely recall that we started out using dblatex with DB4 before we moved to DB5. At any rate we've been using

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

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

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:25:45 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > [...] > Examples, even trivial ones, are hugely useful. Just having two or > three would be useful for reference when implementing a custom look. > Being able to use an existing style and override some elements

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

hi, I formated with docbook some documents from the FSI and DLI. I made some minor modifications of the stylesheet. http://www.yojik.eu/ My documents are bilingual documents with specific needs like diacritics (these are languages lerning documents). I tried the "normal" toolchain:

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Good evening, Le 14/09/2015 16:53, maxwell a écrit : > On 2015-09-14 03:07, Eric Streit wrote: >> I tried DBLaTeX: the output is better, but it's only docbook 4. > > Not sure what you mean here. You mean you're still working in DB4? I > vaguely recall that we started out using dblatex with

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Hi Katie, My company uses DocBook for most of its publications (we publish books for technical communicators, content strategists, and others in the technical communication world). We publish in print and ebook form (which is essentially HTML). We also publish excerpts in HTML. Here is a

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Thomas Schraitle wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:25:45 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: [...] Examples, even trivial ones, are hugely useful. Just having two or three would be useful for reference when implementing a custom look. Being able to use an

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

hi again, of course I used UTF-8, and I checked the fonts before (with diacritics) And I set the language for all the Russian parts. And the hyphénation patterns are installed. Thanks for the advices Eric Le 14/09/2015 09:25, Thomas Schraitle a écrit : > Hi Eric, > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

[mailto:tom_s...@web.de <mailto:tom_s...@web.de>] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 5:39 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org <mailto:docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook Hi Gerhard, Am Samstag, 12. September 2015,

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: Tom, I've been giving this some thought, and what had become evident to me is that I have no problem at all with the Docbook language. After all, you can either learn to code it by hand, or use an editor like Oxygen. Either way, you do need to know

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Hi, Am Freitag, 11. September 2015, 23:45:25 schrieb Warren Block: > [...] > > For me, DocBook is powerful but a pain to write. AsciiDoc is simple to > write, but does not have the semantic markup power of DocBook. That is the essential part. I hear from all sites that DocBook is a bit

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

? Gerard -Original Message- From: Thomas Schraitle [mailto:tom_s...@web.de] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 5:39 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook Hi Gerhard, Am Samstag, 12. September 2015, 11:35:11 schrieb

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Hi Gerad, Am Sonntag, 13. September 2015, 07:36:12 schrieben Sie: > > After all, you can either learn to code it by hand, or use an editor like > Oxygen. Either way, you do need to know the possibilities of the language, > to know the best way to mark-up your document, but that's not really a >

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Hi Gerhard, Am Samstag, 12. September 2015, 11:35:11 schrieb Gerard Nicol: > I'm surprised nobody has put together a Linux VM image with Git and Docbook > etc. Shouldn't be too difficult. ;) > I'd happily pay a few thousand a year for a subscription to a hosted or > packaged Docbook

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, maxwell wrote: On 9/13/2015 12:19 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: 2. The complexity of customizing the default look of the documents, which look OK, but don't look as good as they would need to be to be put in front of a client. That is

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On 9/13/2015 2:45 PM, Warren Block wrote: The FreeBSD DocBook toolchain almost supports dblatex, but the older versions did not have all the features we needed for PDFs. Table of contents and some other things, as I recall. We now have a port of the latest version of dblatex, but it dies

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On 9/13/2015 12:19 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: 2. The complexity of customizing the default look of the documents, which look OK, but don't look as good as they would need to be to be put in front of a client. That is difficult. Based on my unscientific

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook Gerard's points 1 and 2 are quite valid. Setting up my DocBook toolchain was quite the graduate course in frustration. I wrote up notes about how I set it up here: http://www.millermattson.com/blog

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On 2015-09-13 Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: > > > Does anybody sell a commercial Docbook customization layer? > > I don't know of any, but would be interested. Maybe there is a place > with downloadable DocBook "themes", or maybe it is time for that. There are

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2015-09-13 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Gerard Nicol wrote: Does anybody sell a commercial Docbook customization layer? I don't know of any, but would be interested. Maybe there is a place with downloadable DocBook "themes", or maybe

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

I agree that the power of docbook is in its ability to generate multiple formats. At my last position I generated single and multi-page HTML and PDF for a multi-product, multi-version docset. (I'm sorry, I'm not able to provide a public URL here). It did involve a fair amount of work, and I

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

I'm surprised nobody has put together a Linux VM image with Git and Docbook etc. The reason people fork out $2000 plus for RoboHelp is that it kind of works out of the box. I'd happily pay a few thousand a year for a subscription to a hosted or packaged Docbook environment if the results

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Katie Welles wrote: 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! We use it for most of the FreeBSD documentation:

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Warren Block wrote: We use DocBook for all of our books and articles on FreeBSD. Please feel free to check out the docs section in my previous message. Our doc group is small but we welcome the chance to share and learn from others. We have an open mailing list (no

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

, a support case will be automatically created and you may get faster service. -Original Message- From: Katie Welles [mailto:ka...@inkwelle.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 10:57 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

cordb...@gmail.com [mailto:cordb...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Nils > Cordes > *Sent:* Friday, September 11, 2015 12:33 PM > *To:* Katie Welles <ka...@inkwelle.com> > *Cc:* docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > *Subject:* Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook &g

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Dne 11.9.2015 v 18:56 Katie Welles napsal(a): > 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! I've used Docbook to translate a book and generate print-quality PDF, HTML and EPUB. Download links including

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On 09/11/2015 12:56 PM, Katie Welles wrote: +-- | 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! +-- I've been using DocBook as a vehicle for literate programming for well over ten years now. Here are several

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

Example projects using DocBook for documentation: OpenStack Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/ DAPS (OpenSuse): http://opensuse.github.io/daps/doc/index.html PHP Documentation: http://php.net/manual/en/ Eclipse Jetty: http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/ XÖV-STANDARDS UND

[docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

It’s been a while since I’ve used Docbook or participated in this forum. I used Docbook a number of years ago to put together a web-based API reference system. To be frank, I found it to be a pretty painful project, but mainly because I thought it was downright foolish to jump through all

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On 09/11/2015 12:56 PM, Katie Welles wrote: > 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! I have been using DocBook to document APIs for a long time. Most recently I have been working on a C and C++ standard

Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Katie Welles wrote: It’s been a while since I’ve used Docbook or participated in this forum. I used Docbook a number of years ago to put together a web-based API reference system. To be frank, I found it to be a pretty painful project, but mainly because I thought it was

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

looked that good. Gerard From: cordb...@gmail.com [mailto:cordb...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Nils Cordes Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 12:33 PM To: Katie Welles <ka...@inkwelle.com> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

RE: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook

From: Katie Welles [mailto:ka...@inkwelle.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 10:57 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook-apps] Show off what you've done with Docbook It’s been a while since I’ve used Docbook or participated in this forum. I used Docbook a number of years a