Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point.
Also, I'm not clear on what the advantage of using docbook is over just using LaTeX.
BTW, I'm not sure if this qualifies as a proper question for this list, but I am running F9. :-)
TIA
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point.
AFAIK the Fedora documentation source is in Docbook format. I don't know if that's sufficiently non-trivial.
Also, I'm not clear on what the advantage of using docbook is over just using LaTeX.
Depends on your needs. There's a good deal of overlap, in that they are both oriented to marking up documents according to high-level elements (paragraphs, lists, headers, figures etc.) and leaving the final appearance to a compiler. LaTeX (and TeX) are focussed on high-quality printing. Docbook is an SGML style that allows variant versions of documents for different output media (e.g. printed versus Web page). Both are cross-platform. IMHO in Linux LaTeX is more mature and probably better supported by editing tools, while SGML editing can still be a bit painful. Of course you can also generate LaTeX output from a Docbook source file.
poc
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point.
A good while ago I made one that includes its own source in the appendix, called Selfdocbook:
http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/ (bottom of page)
Tim. */
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:17 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for free online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point.
A good while ago I made one that includes its own source in the appendix, called Selfdocbook:
http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/ (bottom of page)
If you have further questions about DocBook, feel free to come by IRC Freenode, #fedora-docs, or join the fedora-docs-list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:18 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for
free
online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point.
AFAIK the Fedora documentation source is in Docbook format. I don't know if that's sufficiently non-trivial.
I am not sure what you mean by Fedora documentation source and/or where do you find it? -- ======================================================================= Living in the complex world of the future is somewhat like having bees live in your head. But, there they are. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 09:11 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:18 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:38 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
Is there such a thing as a nontrivial book that is available for
free
online that also has the docbook src available? I'd like to learn docbook and I think having an available example would be a good starting point.
AFAIK the Fedora documentation source is in Docbook format. I don't know if that's sufficiently non-trivial.
I am not sure what you mean by Fedora documentation source and/or where do you find it?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
Note that this includes a guide on using Docbook for Fedora docs.
poc