From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: Hans Deragon <hans@deragon.biz>
Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generate man pages.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117174005.GD540@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB905C0.2010102@deragon.biz>
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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.
What do you mean by 'normal pdf document'? PDF format output for
refentry looks a lot like you would expect man pages to appear, since
that is how a refentry is structured. You can of course have filling
text in between refentry elements, or as an introduction, or whatever
if you wish.
Tim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-17 17:06 Hans Deragon
2003-11-17 17:17 ` Tim Waugh
2003-11-17 17:31 ` Hans Deragon
2003-11-17 17:40 ` Tim Waugh [this message]
2003-11-17 18:29 ` John Fleck
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