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 unpublished proprietry XML DTD, rather than using DocBook).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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