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Re: question
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: Re: question
- From: Camille Bégnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:03:10 +0200
- Cc: Mary Yeager <myeager at elliott-turbo dot com>,Debra Newill <dnewill at elliott-turbo dot com>
- Organization: MandrakeSoft
- References: <85256920.006B3505.00@notes.elliott-turbo.com>
Hi Mary,
You are absolutely right, I just realized it is not so easy for
uninitiated to know what DocBook means exactly. The official definition
"DocBook is an SGML DTD maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of
OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer
hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these
applications)."
Does not help a lot...
In simple terms, it is kind of a programmation language which allows the
generation of many output formats (HTML, PostScript, RTF, etc.) when
writting documentation, from one single dource SGML file. The code
(written in DocBook "language") is preferably generated manually, so
that it is not a WYSIWYG way of writting doc.
For more information:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/docbook.html
Regards, Camille.
Mary Yeager a écrit :
>
> I recently downloaded your docbook. I am unsure what I can do with it. I
> opened the text files and read them
> but it does not help. Is this an addition to an existing program? I was
> under the impression it was a type of
> manual. Please explain.
> Thanks very much,
> Mary Yeager
> Technical Writer
> Elliott Company
> 901 North Fourth Street
> Jeannette, PA 15644
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