From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 19:14:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E39C16A41A for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:14:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CF043D46 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:14:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.44] (may.chuckr.org [66.92.151.44]) by chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB7711532; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:57:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4491B189.3020201@chuckr.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:14:17 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Darwin Power Macintosh; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20060312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Barniskis References: <448E5692.1070105@chuckr.org> <448EC4A6.50808@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <448EC4A6.50808@scls.lib.wi.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: [Fwd: formatting tools for Docbook] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:14:25 -0000 Greg Barniskis wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> This is a delayed reposting of something that I might have sent to an >> initially poorly chosen list; if it still gets no reponse in another >> day, I might try again, if I can figure out a better FreeBSD list to >> choose. My predilection for FreeBSD is strong, I would really >> dislike to be forced to jump to Linux (or, god forbid, to Windows) >> for this infomation, about using the various FreeBSD ports tools to >> get to the ability to format docbook materials. > > Well, I wasn't trying to write FreeBSD documentation, I was trying to generate my own personal documentation, using a schema that would hopefully be far more generally available. Back when I was using groff and the mm macros (yesterday!) I never would have used some locally tweaked version of the mm macros, unless I included those changes in my docs, because then no one else would be able to use my documents. Am I wrong in considering the FDP generated documentation as being in that category, not terribly uselful outside the FreeBSD project. That's the reason I asked about docbook in general. Obviously, doing FDP stuff is made truly simple. There isn 't some way to adapt the FDP installation to support he generation of more general docbook xml (such as the latest 4.x series stuff, I think 4.5x). ? > Best list: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > > Good starting point: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > Detailed tutorial: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html > > Tools: check out everything that is installed by these metaports: > > textproc/docproj-jadetex > textproc/docproj-nojadetex > >