Hallo Peter, You can find a German tutorial here, which will certainly help you: http://rzserv2.fhnon.de/~lg002556/docbuch/
We (three students) are currently writing our diploma thesises in DocBook and guess the topic: Digital Publishing. I did talk to some publishers, like Adisson, which even accept XML, though not DocBook and we are negotiating with some local printing shops. You can contact me, probably better on a privat line, for specific questions. You can even do it in German :-) Stephan > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Wilm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sonntag, 17. November 2002 14:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DOCBOOK: docbook suitable for book - creation ? > > > Hi, > The literature for docbook - newbies (e.g. DocBook: The Definitive > Guide) concentrates on the creation of the structured > content. However, as I consider learning docbook for writing > my thesis, I would also like to know how to produce a printed > version of the book. I do have highly specific constraints > regarding the Layout: e.g. the size of the left / right page > margin, etc. So the layout is specified in the stylesheet, > which is written in XSL or DSSL, I suppose ? Is there any > online literature suitable for beginners ? So, if I want to > create a suitable layout for my thesis - not for > some thesis - but to fullfill the specifications that *I* got > - will it be easy to learn to write the stylesheet (i.e. in a > few days) ? With LaTeX everything seems clear to me - but the > switch LaTeX -> docbook is a bit difficult if you have to > print the XML - document to a PDF file in a concrete > specified Layout ? I got the impression that layout doesn't > matter to the docbook community... Thank you very much for > any help! Peter. >