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Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generate man pages.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:40:05PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> 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.
>
If you'd like to see an example of a docbook man page:
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=libxml2%2Fdoc/xmllint.xml&rev=&root=/cvs/gnome
You can then use it to build html and pdf as you would any other DocBook
source.
Cheers,
John