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Re: HOWTO layout formatting



On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:00:30 -0400
Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:

> hey all,
> 
> i want to write a mini-howto on all the black magic i had to go
> through to get debian onto this dell inspiron 8000 (i know there are
> lots out there; i want to write another).  is there any specific
> txt2html or latex2html or some formatting tool that is standard for
> the HOWTOs?  I'm just going with LaTeX for the time being, but it's
> not quite the style that they have (i.e.,
> http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/reference.en.html).

I'm surprised you needed any magic at all. All I needed was this:

http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/~park/dell.html#debian

"mini-HOWTO" sort of implies a connection to the Linux Documentation
Project; their author's guide and templates are here:

http://en.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/

http://en.tldp.org/authors/index.html#resources

Having been the HTML route one thing I most strongly recommend is to write
the doc in XML (preferable) or SGML and use the tools to convert to HTML.

Kevin



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