The DocBook-Tools consist of several packages that work together to convert DocBook SGML files into many other formats, and to perform other miscellaneous operations. The output formats include:
HTML
TeX and DVI
PostScript
RTF
Man pages
TexInfo
 | We have said that the DocBook-tools were made for SGML DocBook. That's true, but they can also handle XML DocBook files. |
The home page of the DocBook-Tools project is at http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools and the packages themselves can be obtained from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/ or one of its mirrors. Some commercial distributions have adopted the DocBook-Tools and provide them on their CD.
The DocBook-Tools include the following packages:
basic SGML declarations and tools
a SGML and DSSSL stylesheets engine
a set of TeX macros used by the files generated by Jade
DocBook's SGML DTD (there's one package per version of the DTD)
Norman Walsh's DSSSL stylesheets for DocBook
Interface between Perl and SGML
Helper shell scripts and perl utilities
Major mode for Emacs to edit SGML files
We will describe here only the RPM version of these packages. For other package formats, you will need to adapt the instructions below.
Download the packages
Install them
as in the following session example:
$ ncftp ftp://sources.redhat.com ncftp> cd pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/RPMS ncftp> mget i386/*.rpm ncftp> mget noarch/*.rpm ncftp> quit $ su Password: ultra-sucure # rpm -ih sgml-common*.rpm # rpm -ih jade*.rpm # rpm -ih jadetex*.rpm # rpm -ih docbook-dtd44-sgml*.rpm # rpm -ih docbook-style-dsssl*.rpm # rpm -ih perl-SGMLSpm*.rpm # rpm -ih docbook-utils*.rpm # exit
| The order of installing packages is important. |
| When you are upgrading, rather than installing for the first time, the rpm -ih steps should be replaced with rpm -Uh. |
You are now ready to edit SGML/DocBook documents, then convert them to other formats. To do that, you will use one of the following commands:
docbook2html => HTML
docbook2ps => PostScript
docbook2pdf => PDF
docbook2rtf => Rich Text Format
etc...