2 !== docbook.txt for Samba 3.0
4 !== Author: David Bannon, D.Bannon@latrobe.edu.au November, 2000
5 !== Updates: Gerald (Jerry) Carter, jerry@samba.org, Feb. 2001
6 !== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, Aug, 2002
7 !== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, Jun, 2003
8 !== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, May, 2004
10 What are DocBook documents doing in the Samba Distribution ?
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13 We have converted all samba docs to XML/DocBook V4.2
14 in order to make them easier to maintain and produce a nicer looking
17 This short note (strange isn't it how it always starts out as a short note
18 and becomes a long one ?) will explain very briefly how and why we have
24 If you are new to xml, regard an xml file as 'source code'. You don't
25 read it directly, but use it to create other formats (like the txt and html
26 included in ../txtdocs and ../htmldocs).
28 Docbook is a particular XML style, particularly suited to producing
31 For more information on DocBook tags and format, see "DocBook: The
32 Definitive Guide" by Walsh and Muellner, (c) O'Reilly Publishing.
33 This book covers DocBook V4.2 and is available on-line
34 at http://www.docbook.org/
38 The current Samba CVS tree contains the XML/DocBook source files.
40 A regularly generated version can be found at http://samba.org/samba/docs/.
45 To generate the docs, you need to have the following packages installed:
50 * pngtopnm and pnmtops (from the netpbm utilities)
52 For generating PDF (thru LaTeX):
53 * db2latex (from http://db2latex.sf.net/). Make sure to get CVS version
54 dated 20030622 -- it works best. Versions previous to 20030425 are known
55 to have problems, as well as current (as of 20031210) snapshots.
58 For generating PostScript (thru LaTeX):
65 This directory now contains a ./configure script and Makefile to
66 support the automated building of man pages (including HTML versions), and
67 the building of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection and the
68 Samba Developers Guide (HTML,DVI,TeX,PDF,PS,Text versions).
70 The configure script detects which of the required utilities are installed
71 and builds as much docs as it can using these tools.