From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27156 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2003 17:40:08 -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 27149 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2003 17:40:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO devserv.devel.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2003 17:40:07 -0000 Received: from gene.surrey.redhat.com (gene.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.10.52]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAHHdtDl004412; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:39:55 -0500 Received: from gene.surrey.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gene.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAHHe5gE009446; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:40:05 GMT Received: (from twaugh@localhost) by gene.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAHHe59u009444; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:40:05 GMT Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:40:00 -0000 From: Tim Waugh To: Hans Deragon Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generate man pages. Message-ID: <20031117174005.GD540@redhat.com> References: <3FB8FFB5.9070903@deragon.biz> <20031117171720.GC540@redhat.com> <3FB905C0.2010102@deragon.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tEFtbjk+mNEviIIX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FB905C0.2010102@deragon.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 --tEFtbjk+mNEviIIX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 781 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. */ --tEFtbjk+mNEviIIX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uQf19gevn0C09XYRApWZAKDUUN4LKX29iSalpX9/WGTzN//GOACgkNB2 IiATkYN+cYHxd2OSg9dj/Qg= =Qxth -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tEFtbjk+mNEviIIX--