[TriLUG] docbook & help guides

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Fri Aug 15 11:28:17 EDT 2003


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Douglas Kojetin wrote:
| hi all-
|
| i am in the process of setting up some help documents for my lab, and
| think that formatting them similar to the linux help docs might be the
| best way. i've briefly read up and see that i need to use 'docbook' (i
| was going to choose XML).
|
| my question is, what do i need (on the webserver end) to produce the
| single page HTML, multi page HTML and PDF documents?
|
| thanks,
| doug
|

Actually, you don't need anything special in the webserver.
HTML versions, pdf versions, etc... are all created before
it even gets to the webserver.  So, something like what
we have for the TriLUG FAQ (http://www.trilug.org/faq/)
where we have html, text, pdf, and postscript, all those
formats are created with a makefile from the original
sgml (in our case) file then copied to the webserver
directory.  Docbook works exactly the same way.  I do not
believe the webserver can actually do the transformation
for you. (If this is not the case, I would certainly be
interested in hearing about that.)

Cheers,
Tanner
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