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diff --git a/docs/docbook.txt b/docs/docbook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e1e5881bd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/docbook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +!== +!== docbook.txt for Samba 3.0 +!== +!== Author: David Bannon, D.Bannon@latrobe.edu.au November, 2000 +!== Updates: Gerald (Jerry) Carter, jerry@samba.org, Feb. 2001 +!== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, Aug, 2002 +!== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, Jun, 2003 + +What are DocBook documents doing in the Samba Distribution ? +----------------------------------------------------------- + +We have converted all samba docs to XML/DocBook V4.2 +in order to make them easier to maintain and produce a nicer looking +product. + +This short note (strange isn't it how it always starts out as a short note +and becomes a long one ?) will explain very briefly how and why we have +done this. + + +The format +---------- +If you are new to xml, regard an xml file as 'source code'. You don't +read it directly, but use it to create other formats (like the txt and html +included in ../txtdocs and ../htmldocs). + +Docbook is a particular XML style, particularly suited to producing +technical manuals. + +For more information on DocBook tags and format, see "DocBook: The +Definitive Guide" by Walsh and Muellner, (c) O'Reilly Publishing. +This book covers DocBook V4.2 and is available on-line +at http://www.docbook.org/ + +The Output +---------- +The current Samba CVS tree contains the XML/DocBook source files. + +A regularly generated version can be found at http://samba.org/samba/docs/. + +The Tools +--------- + +To generate the docs, you need to have the following packages installed: + + * autoconf + * docbook-utils + * xsltproc + * pngtopnm and pnmtops (from the netpbm utilities) + * cvs2cl (for generating the changelog file for the HOWTO) + +For generating PDF (thru LaTeX): + * db2latex (from http://db2latex.sf.net/). Make sure to get CVS version + dated 20030622 -- it works best. Versions previous to 20030425 are known + to have problems, as well as current (as of 20031210) snapshots. + * pdflatex + +For generating PostScript (thru LaTeX): + * latex + * dvips + +For generating ASCII: + * xmlto + +This directory now contains a ./configure script and Makefile to +support the automated building of man pages (including HTML versions), and +the building of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection and the +Samba Developers Guide (HTML,DVI,TeX,PDF,PS,Text versions). |