From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 06:09:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605D916A418 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096F143D46 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:09:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.44] (may.chuckr.org [66.92.151.44]) by chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC52114D2 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:53:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <448E5692.1070105@chuckr.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:09:22 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Darwin Power Macintosh; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20060312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Fwd: formatting tools for Docbook] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:09:24 -0000 This is a delayed reposting of something that I might have sent to an initially poorly chosen list; if it still gets no reponse in another day, I might try again, if I can figure out a better FreeBSD list to choose. My predilection for FreeBSD is strong, I would really dislike to be forced to jump to Linux (or, god forbid, to Windows) for this infomation, about using the various FreeBSD ports tools to get to the ability to format docbook materials. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: formatting tools for Docbook Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:31:58 -0400 From: Chuck Robey To: FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org I am aware that there is more than a single set of tools that mgiht possibly be used to format Xml-docbook into html, pdf, and ascii, so I want to ask the advice of those FreeBSD'ers who have actually begun using docbook to format their own personal documents. You see, I have a very lnog-term history of usage of Groff-'s MM macros for my document formatting tasks, but I want to move to a more modern set of tools. That is specifically (today) docbook-4.[latest], and tomorrow is docbook-5.[latest]. I really would want, if possible, to avoid using any dsssl-based toolset. If there is a toolset that uses only libxml* based tools, that would really be the best, but I would be willing to consider adding in Java-based tools. One more item, if I can take you that far (or maybe, I;m admitting that if you answer this, I will be following it up with a small set of questions regarding the installation of docbook catalogs, and the installation paths I will be using (so if I must do any document patching, which I don't know enough about yet to predict, I can do that). Once I get it working under Java, you see, I am convinced I coudl (using a smallish postscript helper file) craft a toolset that no longer needs Java at all, but I need a working toolset before I can make that jump. Help me, please! Again, if you aren;'t using docbook yourself, pass this up, please, I only want to hear from those using the tools themselves, on the FreeBSD lists.