From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Johnson To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Crash-course to DocBook Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <39917D2C.66BF2F60@cybercable.tm.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00305.html On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Eric Bischoff wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm happy to announce the birth of the "Crash-Course to > DocBook". > > You can find it on http://public.lst.de/~eric > > It is released under FDL. Feel free to make it evolve. > Great idea! So much to tell, so little time... On the PSGML page ( http://www.lst.de/~eric/crash-course/HTML/emacs-psgml-mode-tips.html ) you say "PSGML mode is for SGML DocBook. It does not support XML DocBook." which isn't true. PSGML has an XML mode that works fine with DocBook. A group of use it daily (w/ Emacs 20.7) with no problems at all. You only need to put something like this into your .emacs: ;; load xml-mode (autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t) (setq auto-mode-alist (append (list (cons "\\.xml\\'" 'xml-mode)) auto-mode-alist) ) Along with the path to the declaration. I started a page of Emacs/PSGML Tips, based on stuff I read in Bob Snee's SGML CD chapter. It's here: http://ed.phy.duke.edu/xml/psgml-tips/index.html I'd be happy to contribute to your tutorial, as I already spend too much time showing folks how to do this or that. Another idea would be to start a database of docbook-user FAQs, we already have a number of Zope installations that would make it very easy to do something like this. It would automatically be searchable, and indexed, etc. Does that sound useful to anyone? Mark > It has been made out of three documents: > - David Rugge's "Crash-Course to DocBook" for KDE > - Mark Galassi's "Introduction to DocBook" > - My own Lunch&Learn presentation "Using DocBook at Caldera" > with a lot of glue and reorganization (and a small waste > basket - everything that was KDE-specific has been removed). > > The purpose is to have a "tutorial" for newcomers to > DocBook, to be used in conjunction with Norm's book which I > see more as a reference manual. > > I hope this helps. > >