From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 24 11:54:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5868837B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A95443E4A for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H98009M3HY2B3@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:54:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:47:55 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-100.acuson.com [157.226.46.100]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0DCB4; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:49:05 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:54:03 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: your mail+ Building and Breaking and all that... In-reply-to: <3E312E2C.81116287@ovis.net> To: chromexa@ovis.net, freebsd newbies Message-id: <200301241154.03045.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20030124072324.88278.qmail@web41106.mail.yahoo.com> <20030124113234.GH86853@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <3E312E2C.81116287@ovis.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday 24 January 2003 04:14 am, Steve Kudlak wrote: > The way *BSD lists are organized...well this seems to be the > best place to ask this. It is a little too general for hackers. Has anyone > used TeX a lot under *BSD or any other nice typesetting system? > Has anyone brought up things like the POV ray tracing program and > got it to do interesting things. I've used TeX/LaTeX and POVray under FreeBSD. They work just as well, if not better, as under Windows or Linux. > Like has anyone thrown together a zine or a book on a BSD system > and what did they use. Besides all of the traditional UNIX text processing tools, also take a look at DocBook. This is the tool that O'Reilly uses for its books. Theire stylesheets are even available online. Using DocBook, you can output your document in HTML, TeX, or transformed into a custom XML. Then with the TeX output, you can get Postscript and PDF. For image processing, GIMP and ImageMagick should give you everything else you need. Who in BSD has done this? FreeBSD itself. The FreeBSD Handbook is a DocBook document, and a single source is used to create the online, PDF and printed bound versions. David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message