From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 1 5:23: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from firewall1.lehman.com (firewall.Lehman.COM [192.147.65.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5734214CC2 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 05:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nclayton@lehman.com) Received: from relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com by firewall1.lehman.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id IAA16596; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:22:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from lonmailhost.lehman.com by relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id IAA08573; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:22:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by lonmailhost.lehman.com (SMI-8.6/Lehman Bros. V1.5) id OAA03668; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:22:14 +0100 Message-ID: <19990401142214.Z14492@lehman.com> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:22:14 +0100 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Ayan George , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Learning SGML References: <199903291718.MAA77303@kiwi.hefty.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199903291718.MAA77303@kiwi.hefty.org>; from Ayan George on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 12:18:43PM -0500 Organization: Lehman Brothers Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 12:18:43PM -0500, Ayan George wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good SGML book for use with the SGML tools > available for FreeBSD? Depends what you need. If you don't need to know much about SGML, but just how to write DocBook, then take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/primer/ (which will be moving in to the FreeBSD 'official' documentation set soon) It also covers much of the SGML theory that you'll need. http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ is the definitive web resource. You might like to try _SGML for Dummies_. Crap title, but quite informative, and well presented. And there's also _DocBook: The definitive guide_. More info at the (incomplete) website, http://www.docbook.org/ Note that the text of this book will be FREELY DOWNLOADABLE (it isn't yet). But if anyone finds it useful (and I think *anyone* that helps contribute docs to the project will) I'd urge them to shell out the money for it when it's released. The author, Norm Walsh, is a *good bloke* -- we use his stylesheets to format the online and print versions of the Handbook. N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message