Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generate man pages.

[Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:30:40PM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote:

> Thanks for the tip, but could you point me to a howto for creating
> man pages with docbook?  Is it actually possible from a same docbook
> xml to create man pages and a normal pdf document?  Or must I have
> one special docbook for man pages and another one for the other
> formats?  Ideally, I want to be able to generate a nice PDF manual
> and a man page from the same source, without having to duplicate
> text.

What do you mean by 'normal pdf document'?  PDF format output for
refentry looks a lot like you would expect man pages to appear, since
that is how a refentry is structured.  You can of course have filling
text in between refentry elements, or as an introduction, or whatever
if you wish.

Tim.
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