Hi Bob, Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013, 10:26:08 schrieb Bob Plantz: > [...] > > Maybe take a look at DAPS, http://daps.sf.net > > Not sure if this is what you need. To get an overview, look at the DAPS > > Quick Start: > > http://daps.sf.net/documentation/html/daps-quick.html > > Thank you, Thomas, I'll take a look. But I do enjoy "getting my hands > dirty" with low-level stuff. My books are on assembly language. ;-)
Oh, assembly language, that's quite challenging :) We haven't tested it for other distributions than openSUSE. The archive contains a configure script which should tell you what is missing. > >> [...] > >> Since I'm new to docbook, my take is that I should start with 5.0. > > > > DocBook 5 is prepared, but not really tested yet. > > So, do you think it might be better for me to work with 4.x? Sorry, my previous answer was misleading. Of course, DocBook 5 itself is stable and you can use it. I never challenged that. I was refering to the DocBook 5 support in DAPS. > I'm running > Ubuntu 12.10. Their "standard" DocBook installation is 4.x. They have an > online help wiki page on DocBook was written in December 2010 and is > based on 4.x. I suppose that 4.x so widely used that it will not become > obsolete soon -- probably not before my book becomes obsolete. :-) Right, DocBook 4.x is stable and I guess it will stay for a while. Of course the new kid on the block is DocBook 5 and all new features will go into this release. I'm not very familiar with the current situation on Ubuntu. Probably you will have the least problems with DocBook 4.x. I think it doesn't hurt to start in DocBook 4.5 for the time being. If you plan a second edition, you can rethink your format and maybe transform your files into version 5. By the way, here is how to do it: http://doccookbook.sf.net/html/en/dbc.structure.db4-to-db5.html Good luck with your book! -- Gruß/Regards Thomas Schraitle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org