Hello Claude,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:02:35PM +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> Le lundi 25 juin 2007 à 19:36 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > (please CC: me, I am not subscribed)
> >
> > I am the Debian maintainer for goobox. The previous maintainer wrote an
> > (English) man page for goobox using Docbook. I translated this man
> > page to German.
>
> Before writing a more complete answer, I'd like to be sure we're talking
> about the same thing. When you are referring to Docbook file, I suppose
> it's the "regular" help file [1], open generally by Yelp through the
> Help -> Contents menu item.
>
> For me, a man page is in a classical (groff) man format.
Yes, the one you read using the man(1) programm. (I just checked, yelp
is able to display them as well)
> But I may be wrong. Is it a special case with a Docbook source file
> generating a man page?
Yes. In principle, I could write a man page in groff, but using
docbook allows me to concentrate on content rather than presentation.
To be precise:
<!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [
...
and convert it using
docbook-to-man debian/manpage/goobox.en.sgml > debian/goobox/usr/share/man/man1/goobox.1
(or other tools, e.g. nsgmls).
Greetings
Helge
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