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DocBook is a very popular set of SGML/XML tags for describing books, articles, and other prose documents, particularly technical documentation. (DOCBOOK: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE, N Walsh and L Muellner, 2006)

DocBook is a very popular set of tags for describing books, articles, and other prose documents, particularly technical documentation. DocBook is defined using the native DTD syntax of SGML and XML. Like HTML, DocBook is an example of a markup language defined in SGML/XML. (DOCBOOK: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE, N Walsh and L Muellner, 2006)

For more information, visit: http://www.docbook.org/

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Apache FOP does not honor font settings/directory for DocBook

I'm trying to use Microsoft's Arial Unicode font in a DocBook project. The project is using Apache's FOP. FOP is installed in /usr/local/bin/fop-1.1. The Arial_Unicode.ttf font is installed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/: $ ls -l…
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Validating DocBook 5 documents against both RELAXNG and Schematron?

I'm writing a DocBook 5 document and would like to fully validate it against both the RELAXNG and Schematron schemas. Here is what I've tried: To my knowledge, xmllint from the libxml2 package won't handle RELAXNG schemas with embedded Schematron,…
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Is there a tool that helps writing a Book with DocBook Code?

DocBook seems to be nice, but is there a tool that helps using it? I mean something that would instantly show how it looks or allows editing more easily by selecting a word and then hitting a button to format it somehow, or to enter a paragraph, a…
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How can a SGML-based DocBook document be rendered as PDF?

What I have: A DocBook file in the SGML format What I want: A version of this document as a PDF, so I can properly read it. The complication: There are tools for XML-based DocBook files, including PDF rendering. For SGML-based DocBook files,…
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Is dblatex in MikTeX broken, or am I doing something wrong?

I've been using MikTeX on Windows XP for years to generate PDFs from LaTeX. I'm not that keen on LaTeX, though, and want to switch to using DocBook. Getting a DocBook processor like Apache FOP set up and working on Windows is a pain, so to bypass…
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Good open-source DocBook editing tools?

Possible Duplicate: Is there a Tool that helps writing a Book with DocBook Code? I am looking for a good open-source application to help with editing DocBook documents. By good I mean: stable documented active (project) I have already tried…
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printing the book title in the header of a pdf with fop/docbook/xslt

What is the proper string to use in my XSLT to make FOP print the title of the book in the header? I haven't been able to find this anywhere, and any help is appreciated! Edit: So, …
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Which Single Source Publishing tools and strategies are available?

I'm about to write a 1000-Pages Documentation about a huge programming framework. The goal is to bring this documentation online into an web platform, so that online users can search through it and read it online. At the same time, the text has to…
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Editing docbook

I need to edit a docbook resource with a decent, cross platform WYSIWYG editor, being also able to include latex style formulas, images and svg plots. Then, I need to create pdf, html and import the data on a drupal website for public online…
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Spellchecker for docbook

Is there any good command line spellcheckers for Docbook avaliable that could be configured to ignore certain tags such as . Preferably it would use hunspell dictionaries since I have a good Swedish dictionary to that.
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DocBook quick start

I want to produce a PDF file out from a DocBook source on a Debian system. What should I do? Sorry for the n00b way of posting this, but it seems I'm unable to find anything around (compared to LaTeX). And onestly I'm very surprised about that.
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How can I view DocBook files on Windows 7?

I want to view Docbook .xml files on Windows 7. How can I do that?
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