DOCBOOK: Need tips and speeding-up techniques for DocBook formatting

[Sylvan Ravinet <sylvan at ravinet dot com>]

Hi folks,

I can't believe I needed more than 4 hours to format a plain ascii file
(produced from a HTML version of a doc converted from Framemaker, then
dumped with lynx) of 30 pages after being converted to DocBook (viewed
as .dvi). (but I'm a DocBook novice)

Do you DocBook users and experts have some tips and techniques to use
efficiently DocBook in a Sygnus distribution and Emacs (or XEmacs) +
pgsgml environment?

Do you have also some tips to share on how to separate a DocBook
document into different files for easier maintenance?

I would appreciate that you would share some tips to better manage
content and markup authoring via a version control system such as CVS,
too.

Thank you for your help,

I'm eager to use efficiently DocBook.

Cheers,

-Sylvan
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