From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20037 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2003 18:29:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact docbook-tools-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: docbook-tools-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20029 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2003 18:29:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO taka.swcp.com) (198.59.115.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2003 18:29:55 -0000 Received: from yagi.swcp.com (yagi.swcp.com [216.184.2.43]) by taka.swcp.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAHIToCo065958; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:29:51 -0700 (MST) Received: (from jfleck@localhost) by yagi.swcp.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA16921; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:29:50 GMT Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:29:00 -0000 From: John Fleck To: Tim Waugh Cc: Hans Deragon , docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generate man pages. Message-ID: <20031117112949.A16776@inkstain.net> References: <3FB8FFB5.9070903@deragon.biz> <20031117171720.GC540@redhat.com> <3FB905C0.2010102@deragon.biz> <20031117174005.GD540@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031117174005.GD540@redhat.com>; from twaugh@redhat.com on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:40:05PM +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on kaimen.swcp.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:40:05PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:30:40PM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip, but could you point me to a howto for creating > > man pages with docbook? Is it actually possible from a same docbook > > xml to create man pages and a normal pdf document? Or must I have > > one special docbook for man pages and another one for the other > > formats? Ideally, I want to be able to generate a nice PDF manual > > and a man page from the same source, without having to duplicate > > text. > If you'd like to see an example of a docbook man page: http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=libxml2%2Fdoc/xmllint.xml&rev=&root=/cvs/gnome You can then use it to build html and pdf as you would any other DocBook source. Cheers, John