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Re: How to read DocBook file?



Sean Burlington wrote:

Kent West wrote:

I'm trying to find out how to set "noauth" globally in kppp (or at least let a normal user set it), but apparently KDE's documentation is in docbook format, and is quite unreadable in all the editors/word processors/browsers I've tried (gedit, kedit, nedit, vi, abiword, OOo, Mozilla, Konqueror).

I've both googled and dogpiled for this question, and it seems like maybe docbook files have to be converted to some other format first, like by using docbook2html or something similar. But surely there's a reader (or a browser plugin, etc) of some sort that would automatically make docbook files readable. To me, having to convert a file before being able to read it will be a major turn-off for the masses, because it is for me, and I'm more geeky than the masses.



I think docbook isn't intended as an end-user format

that said - try using Lyx - its an editor rather than a viewr but it does disply docbook files well

but are you sure these files aren't available ready converted ?

Yeah, apparently you're right about them being available ready converted. These (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kppp) are apparently the help files when you click on a help "?" key in KPPP. That satisfies my immediate need.

Lyx didn't like the one file I tried (/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kppp/global-something...). So apparently Lyx isn't a reliable reader for docbooks. However, since my immediate need has been taken care of, I'm ready to let this thread drop.

Thanks for the response!

Kent





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