2 !== docbook.txt for Samba HEAD
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
8 What are DocBook documents doing in the Samba Distribution ?
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11 We are planning to convert all of the samba docs to SGML/DocBook V4.1
12 in order to make them easier to maintain and produce a nicer looking
15 This short note (strange isn't it how it always starts out as a short note
16 and becomes a long one ?) will explain very briefly how and why we are
23 If you are new to sgml, regard an sgml file as 'source code'. You don't
24 read it directly, use it to create other formats (like the txt and html
25 included in ../txt and ../html).
27 Docbook is a particular SGML style, particularly suited to producing
28 technical manuals. In the two documents I have produced so far I have used
29 DocBook 4.1, it seems that products like RedHat Linux is still include only
30 version 3.1, the differences are minor. The Linux Documentation Project is
31 using a modified version of 3.1 but are really geared up to make multi
32 paged documents, something we want to avoid for logistic reasons.
34 For more information on DocBook tags and format, see "DocBook: The
35 Definitive Guide" by Walsh and Muellner, (c) O'Reilly Publishing.
36 This book covers DocBook V3.1 and is available on-line
37 at http://www.docbook.org/
42 The current Samba CVS tree contains the SGML/DocBook source files as well
43 as the following autogenerated formats:
47 * ASCII text (where appropriate)
54 To generate the docs, you need to have the following packages installed:
59 This directory now contains a ./configure script and Makefile to
60 support the automated building of man pages (including HTML versions), and
61 the building of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection (HTML,PDF,PS,Text versions).