discuss: Howtos-with-LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Howtos-with-LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
16 Mar 2001 21:19:51 -0000
Message-Id: <10103161614.ZM12098@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Mar 16, 11:14am, David Lawyer wrote:
> Subject: Howtos-with-LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO
> I've just written this mini-HOWTO and will submit it after a final
> reading of it. I would like it to be mentioned in
> .../authors/index.html. This will give people a choice of LinuxDoc vs
> DocBook. I refer people to the LDP Authoring Guide and compare
> LinuxDoc with DocBook.
>
> I've included 3 lessons (by example) to learn LinuxDoc. The 4th lesson
> is on advanced LinuxDoc but since I don't really know that topic, I
> couldn't finish it (It's not currently in the Howto). All I've done
> in lesson 4 so far is to review the first 3 lessons. Advanced
> LinuxDoc would show how to create indexes, math symbols, etc. but
> perhaps if I included that (if I understood it) the mini-HOWTO would
> become too long for a mini :-).
>
> As a substitute for lesson 4 (I call it example4) I've make a
> quick-reference sheet. These example-lessons really belong in the
> LinuxDoc package itself but that would take a while to propagate.
David...I stumbled across a nice Linuxdoc Reference HOWTO written
by Uwe Böhme. Uwe indicated we could use it; but said it may require
some "wordsmithing":
http://www.bnhof.de/~uwe/lnd/lnd.html
> PS: This is another topic. I tried using sgml2xml to convert LinuxDoc
> and it seems to work. But I'm not sure if the results are valid XML.
> Anyway, if people in the future should insist on XML in place of
> SGML then LinuxDoc can do it (if the sgml2xml converter works
> correctly).
What DTD? Does it normalize linuxdoc markup to be valid linuxdoc XML?
r,
Ferg
