* 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what Peter Toft
@ 2000-10-02 13:24 ` Peter Toft
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Bill Campbell
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Peter Toft @ 2000-10-02 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: docbook-tools-discuss
I have had many good hints from this list, hence I try
again.
I have 6 Linux books written in DocBook, and each of
them have their seperate index. However it could be
cool if I could make a mega-book containing the 6 books
+ one joint mega-index :)
Actually I made one book - it kept growing, hence we
did split that one, but some people would like to have
the benefit of one index (especially) in the HTML
version.
It seems that I can use the <set> tag to make the
mega-book and then I had to consider the index. I can
make an additional new <book> within the <set> which
contains the index, but it seems clumsy that I have to
add that book (named index - with one item in it -
named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
BR
--
Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto
"You don't win a battle by asking, `Will we win?'
You win it by doing your best to win"
- Richard M Stallman
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
@ 2000-10-02 13:31 ` Norman Walsh
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Peter Toft
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Norman Walsh @ 2000-10-02 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Toft; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
/ Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
| named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
<setindex>? :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | What is more wonderful than the delight
http://nwalsh.com/ | which the mind feels when it *knows*?
| This delight is not for anything beyond
| the knowing, but is in the act of
| knowing. It is the satisfaction of a
| primary instinct.--Mark Rutherford
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Peter Toft
@ 2000-10-02 13:34 ` Peter Toft
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Peter Toft @ 2000-10-02 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Norman Walsh; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
On 2 Oct 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
> | named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
>
> <setindex>?:-)
Which works with collateindex.pl?
"You don't win a battle by asking, `Will we win?'
You win it by doing your best to win"
- Richard M Stallman
----> Visit http://petition.eurolinux.org <---
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
@ 2000-10-02 13:56 ` Norman Walsh
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Norman Walsh @ 2000-10-02 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Toft; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
/ Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
| On 2 Oct 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
|
| > / Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
| > | named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
| >
| > <setindex>?:-)
|
| Which works with collateindex.pl?
Uhm. If you tell the collateindex script to generate a <setindex>, it
should be OK. You'll have to play a few games if you want to generate
six individual indexes *and* a setindex, but it should be doable.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Wink at small faults; for thou has
http://nwalsh.com/ | great ones.--Thomas Fuller (II)
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Bill Campbell
@ 2000-10-02 15:34 ` Bill Campbell
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Bill Campbell @ 2000-10-02 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: docbook-tools-discuss
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:22:05PM +0200, Peter Toft wrote:
>I have had many good hints from this list, hence I try
>again.
>
>I have 6 Linux books written in DocBook, and each of
>them have their seperate index. However it could be
>cool if I could make a mega-book containing the 6 books
>+ one joint mega-index :)
I consider myself a docbook dummy, having only been working with it for a
few months so there may be better ways to handle this. The way we do it
here is to have each chapter/article in its own directory, with the body of
the text in a file body.sgml, and a wrapper file that sources that file
with the appropriate declarations to format it as a separate article.
These directories are all in a parallel directory structure, and when I
want to create a book, it gets its own directory, parallel to the
individual chapters. There's a wrapper file in that directory that has
ENTITY declarations for each chapter referring to the body of each chapter
as ../chapname/body.sgml. I have a script that's derived from one of
Eric's docbook-utils which processes docbook input appropriately with
collateindex to create the html, postscript, etc. output. The script also
has an option to create a single html file using ``nochunks'' in addition
to the normal multi-file structure because I often find it easier to work
with a single file in a browser than be constantly paging around since I
can search or print the whole document in one operation.
Bill
--
INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676
URL: http://www.celestial.com/
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- Machiavelli
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
@ 2000-10-10 1:39 ` Eric Bischoff
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Eric Bischoff @ 2000-10-10 1:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bill; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
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Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> These directories are all in a parallel directory structure, and when I
> want to create a book, it gets its own directory, parallel to the
> individual chapters. There's a wrapper file in that directory that has
> ENTITY declarations for each chapter referring to the body of each chapter
> as ../chapname/body.sgml. I have a script that's derived from one of
> Eric's docbook-utils which processes docbook input appropriately with
> collateindex to create the html, postscript, etc. output. The script also
> has an option to create a single html file using ``nochunks'' in addition
> to the normal multi-file structure because I often find it easier to work
> with a single file in a browser than be constantly paging around since I
> can search or print the whole document in one operation.
Maybe you already use it, but...
The "nochunks" option is in the docbook-utils
man docbook2html
or docbook2html --help
will give you the syntax.
--
Ãric Bischoff - Documentation and Localization
Caldera (Deutschland) GmbH - Linux for eBusiness
Tel: +49 9131 7192 300 - Fax: +49 9131 7192 399
http://www.caldera.de/
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Bill Campbell
2000-10-02 15:34 ` Bill Campbell
@ 2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-10-10 1:39 ` Eric Bischoff
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Eric Bischoff @ 2000-12-27 6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bill; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
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Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> These directories are all in a parallel directory structure, and when I
> want to create a book, it gets its own directory, parallel to the
> individual chapters. There's a wrapper file in that directory that has
> ENTITY declarations for each chapter referring to the body of each chapter
> as ../chapname/body.sgml. I have a script that's derived from one of
> Eric's docbook-utils which processes docbook input appropriately with
> collateindex to create the html, postscript, etc. output. The script also
> has an option to create a single html file using ``nochunks'' in addition
> to the normal multi-file structure because I often find it easier to work
> with a single file in a browser than be constantly paging around since I
> can search or print the whole document in one operation.
Maybe you already use it, but...
The "nochunks" option is in the docbook-utils
man docbook2html
or docbook2html --help
will give you the syntax.
--
Ãric Bischoff - Documentation and Localization
Caldera (Deutschland) GmbH - Linux for eBusiness
Tel: +49 9131 7192 300 - Fax: +49 9131 7192 399
http://www.caldera.de/
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* 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
@ 2000-12-27 6:36 Peter Toft
2000-10-02 13:24 ` Peter Toft
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Peter Toft @ 2000-12-27 6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: docbook-tools-discuss
I have had many good hints from this list, hence I try
again.
I have 6 Linux books written in DocBook, and each of
them have their seperate index. However it could be
cool if I could make a mega-book containing the 6 books
+ one joint mega-index :)
Actually I made one book - it kept growing, hence we
did split that one, but some people would like to have
the benefit of one index (especially) in the HTML
version.
It seems that I can use the <set> tag to make the
mega-book and then I had to consider the index. I can
make an additional new <book> within the <set> which
contains the index, but it seems clumsy that I have to
add that book (named index - with one item in it -
named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
BR
--
Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto
"You don't win a battle by asking, `Will we win?'
You win it by doing your best to win"
- Richard M Stallman
----> Visit http://petition.eurolinux.org <---
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what Peter Toft
2000-10-02 13:24 ` Peter Toft
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Bill Campbell
@ 2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
2000-10-02 13:31 ` Norman Walsh
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Peter Toft
2 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Norman Walsh @ 2000-12-27 6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Toft; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
/ Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
| named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
<setindex>? :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | What is more wonderful than the delight
http://nwalsh.com/ | which the mind feels when it *knows*?
| This delight is not for anything beyond
| the knowing, but is in the act of
| knowing. It is the satisfaction of a
| primary instinct.--Mark Rutherford
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Peter Toft
2000-10-02 13:34 ` Peter Toft
@ 2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
2000-10-02 13:56 ` Norman Walsh
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Norman Walsh @ 2000-12-27 6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Toft; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
/ Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
| On 2 Oct 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
|
| > / Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
| > | named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
| >
| > <setindex>?:-)
|
| Which works with collateindex.pl?
Uhm. If you tell the collateindex script to generate a <setindex>, it
should be OK. You'll have to play a few games if you want to generate
six individual indexes *and* a setindex, but it should be doable.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Wink at small faults; for thou has
http://nwalsh.com/ | great ones.--Thomas Fuller (II)
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what Peter Toft
2000-10-02 13:24 ` Peter Toft
@ 2000-12-27 6:36 ` Bill Campbell
2000-10-02 15:34 ` Bill Campbell
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
2 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Bill Campbell @ 2000-12-27 6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: docbook-tools-discuss
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:22:05PM +0200, Peter Toft wrote:
>I have had many good hints from this list, hence I try
>again.
>
>I have 6 Linux books written in DocBook, and each of
>them have their seperate index. However it could be
>cool if I could make a mega-book containing the 6 books
>+ one joint mega-index :)
I consider myself a docbook dummy, having only been working with it for a
few months so there may be better ways to handle this. The way we do it
here is to have each chapter/article in its own directory, with the body of
the text in a file body.sgml, and a wrapper file that sources that file
with the appropriate declarations to format it as a separate article.
These directories are all in a parallel directory structure, and when I
want to create a book, it gets its own directory, parallel to the
individual chapters. There's a wrapper file in that directory that has
ENTITY declarations for each chapter referring to the body of each chapter
as ../chapname/body.sgml. I have a script that's derived from one of
Eric's docbook-utils which processes docbook input appropriately with
collateindex to create the html, postscript, etc. output. The script also
has an option to create a single html file using ``nochunks'' in addition
to the normal multi-file structure because I often find it easier to work
with a single file in a browser than be constantly paging around since I
can search or print the whole document in one operation.
Bill
--
INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676
URL: http://www.celestial.com/
``Never do your enemy a minor injury.''
- Machiavelli
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* Re: 6 Linux books in DocBook, and so what ...
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
2000-10-02 13:31 ` Norman Walsh
@ 2000-12-27 6:36 ` Peter Toft
2000-10-02 13:34 ` Peter Toft
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Norman Walsh
1 sibling, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Peter Toft @ 2000-12-27 6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Norman Walsh; +Cc: docbook-tools-discuss
On 2 Oct 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> was heard to say:
> | named index). Can I make a smarter trick here???
>
> <setindex>?:-)
Which works with collateindex.pl?
"You don't win a battle by asking, `Will we win?'
You win it by doing your best to win"
- Richard M Stallman
----> Visit http://petition.eurolinux.org <---
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