From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23483 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2003 17:31:18 -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 23476 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2003 17:31:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca) (24.201.245.36) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2003 17:31:17 -0000 Received: from world ([24.202.19.94]) by VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOI008F8BB5I7@VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:30:41 -0500 (EST) Received: FROM deragon.biz ([24.202.19.94]) BY world WITH ESMTP ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:30:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:31:00 -0000 From: Hans Deragon Subject: Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generate man pages. In-reply-to: <20031117171720.GC540@redhat.com> Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Message-id: <3FB905C0.2010102@deragon.biz> Organization: Deragon Informatique inc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030905 References: <3FB8FFB5.9070903@deragon.biz> <20031117171720.GC540@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:04:53PM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote: > > >> Newbie here with docbook. Docbook is easy and I get docbook2pdf, >> docbook2ps and docbook2html working marvelously. However, when I run >>docbook2man, only the following two files are created: >> >>-rw-r--r-- 1 qhander qhander 0 Nov 17 11:11 manpage.links >>-rw-r--r-- 1 qhander qhander 27 Nov 17 11:11 manpage.refs >> >> There is no real man page created. I search for the web for some HowTos, >> but no success. What is missing to generate man pages? > > > Perhaps you don't have any elements? > > Tim. > */ 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. Sincerely, Hans Deragon -- Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant Deragon Informatique inc. Open source: http://www.deragon.biz http://swtmvcwrapper.sourceforge.net mailto://hans@deragon.biz http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net