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Re: RFP: docbook2x -- converts DocBook documents into man pages and Info documents



On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:17:51PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> However, while there are a number of different stylesheets and packages
> available for converting to most of these formats, there is currently in
> Debian only one which converts DocBook to a man page, docbook-to-man.
> (xmltoman has also recently arrived in the archive, but it is based on an
> unpublished proprietry XML DTD, rather than using DocBook).

Wrong.  We have docbook2man, part of docbook-utils.  I use it to generate
the manpage for my OfflineIMAP program, part of Debian.

> There are problems with docbook-to-man.  It is not maintained upstream (has

That's very true.

> docbook2X seems to deal with all of these inadequacies in docbook-to-man.

How's it different than docbook-utils or sgml2x?

-- John



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