Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:41:34 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> To: iqgrande@gmail.com (Anthony Michael Agelastos) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superb documentation Message-ID: <44pr9lxh6p.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <BF7F9E48-23DB-4375-B77D-989DB9676BD2@gmail.com> (Anthony Michael Agelastos's message of "Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:08:48 -0400") References: <BF7F9E48-23DB-4375-B77D-989DB9676BD2@gmail.com>
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iqgrande@gmail.com (Anthony Michael Agelastos) writes: > I've been a long-time user of FreeBSD partially due to the superb > documentation it provides. Anyways, I am curious about how this > documentation is built. I am a n00b when it comes to this sort of > thing, but it appears that you use DocBook and some style sheets to > auto-generate and auto-format the documentation. I am familiar with > the concept of DocBook since I use LaTeX but am not even sure where to > begin even attempting it. Do you have any recommended pieces of > software that help in speeding things along? What software do you use > to create the final document? Thank you for your insight into this. Have you looked at the documentation for building the documentation? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html
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