Re: DocBook

[Mike M <linux-support@earthlink.net>]

On Monday 24 February 2003 15:45, David Z Maze wrote:
> Mike M <linux-support@earthlink.net> writes:
> > I want to restart my DocBook efforts.  I have SGML source and want
> > to produce HTML and PDF docs
> >
> > Should I start by installing these packages: docbook, docbook-dsssl?
>
> That's probably a good start; you also need a DSSSL processor (jade
> and jadetex seem to be ~canonical).  Then you can run
>
>   jade -t tex foo.sgml   # foo.sgml + foo.dsl -> foo.tex
>   jadetex foo            # foo.tex -> foo.dvi
>   dvips foo -o           # foo.dvi -> foo.ps
>   pdfjadetex foo         # foo.tex -> foo.pdf

Thanks.
>
> Alternatively, if you're in an XML world, you can use an XSLT
> processor (like xsltproc) and libfop-java to get PDF out.  But that
> has Java dependencies, is strictly XML, and the Debian dependencies
> never seemed quite right to me.

I'm interested in XML but I want to tackle that as a "part 2" effort.  
-- 
Mike M.