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

[Drew Parsons <parsonsd@knox.nsw.edu.au>]

On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 01:42, John Goerzen wrote:
> 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 unpublished proprietry XML DTD, rather than using DocBook).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, the descriptions for docbook-utils and sgml2x don't mention man
pages, so how am I supposed to know they can handle them?

I'll have a look at docbook2man from docbook-utils and see how it
compares to docbook2x's output.

And file a description bug against them ;)

Graham, guess I missed xmlto, I'll have a closer look.

Thanks for the pointers,

Drew