2 !== docbook.txt for Samba 3.0
4 !== Author: David Bannon, D.Bannon@latrobe.edu.au November, 2000
5 !== Updates: Gerald (Jerry) Carter, jerry@samba.org, Feb. 2001
6 !== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, Aug, 2002
7 !== Updates: Jelmer Vernooij, jelmer@samba.org, Jun, 2003
9 What are DocBook documents doing in the Samba Distribution ?
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12 We have converted all samba docs to XML/DocBook V4.2
13 in order to make them easier to maintain and produce a nicer looking
16 This short note (strange isn't it how it always starts out as a short note
17 and becomes a long one ?) will explain very briefly how and why we have
23 If you are new to xml, regard an xml file as 'source code'. You don't
24 read it directly, but use it to create other formats (like the txt and html
25 included in ../txtdocs and ../htmldocs).
27 Docbook is a particular XML style, particularly suited to producing
30 For more information on DocBook tags and format, see "DocBook: The
31 Definitive Guide" by Walsh and Muellner, (c) O'Reilly Publishing.
32 This book covers DocBook V4.2 and is available on-line
33 at http://www.docbook.org/
37 The current Samba CVS tree contains the XML/DocBook source files as well
38 as the following autogenerated formats:
44 The following formats are not available in CVS but can be generated by
55 To generate the docs, you need to have the following packages installed:
59 * pngtopnm and pnmtops (from the netpbm utilities)
61 For generating PDF (thru LaTeX):
64 For generating PostScript (thru LaTeX):
71 This directory now contains a ./configure script and Makefile to
72 support the automated building of man pages (including HTML versions), and
73 the building of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection and the
74 Samba Developers Guide (HTML,DVI,TeX,PDF,PS,Text versions).