from the oreilly announcement while we would have liked to make these ebooks available sooner we felt it was important to first contribute to building some of the tools needed for other publishers to follow our lead such as enhancements to the opensource docbook xsl stylesheets which can now generate epub from docbook xml source files. related open source docbook xsl experimental epub support rele...
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one of the tasks presents on almost every job and position is to prepare documentation. there are different tools to create good documents but if you are developer and you need to create professional documents then you may fall into two options latex and docbook. ill explain to you how to prepare good pdf from docbook documents in 3 easy steps 1 create the structure of your document an...
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o jimmy atkinson escreveu este interessante artigo o tatulo explica tudo. reproduzo aqui apenas a lista dos programas proprietarios e das alternativas de cadigo livre. a importante ler o artigo original em inglas por causa de detalhes importantes e informaaaes adicionais ou para conhecer outras opiniaes nem todo mundo concordou com as dicas do jimmy. basicos windows vista os para ubuntu os ...
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by richard hamilton special to the content wrangler reprinted with permission if the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.abraham maslow 1908 1970 when most people purchase a new car the experience goes something like this. they start out with high expectations they want a convertible suv that will carry a family of six look and drive like a ferrari cost less t...
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the programmers notepad online help was previously run using moinmoin a wiki engine developed using python and one that i was fond of many years ago. as with everything else on the internet the help website had begun to develop a lot of spam over the last couple of months and it would seem that moinmoin just wasnt up to the job of helping me to fight that. i had to resort to regularly shelling int...
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by richard hamilton special to the content wrangler reprinted with permission if you follow the latest trends or have been to a conference recently you may find the idea of choosing an xml schema puzzling. isnt the question really how should i customize dita to do what i want while there are many good reasons to choose dita its not the only schema in town. the two most popular schemas at the m...
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heute habe ich den lieben tag damit verbracht endlich mal gescheite xslstylesheets far die doku unserer neuen verwaltungssoftware zu basteln. die komplette dokumentation installation verwendung schnittstellen etc. ist in docbookxml programmiert natarlich auf deutsch und englisch. damit kannen wir auf knopfdruck die aktuelle doku jeweils als html einzelne bzw. viele kleine dateien sowie als pdf erz...
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i have been meaning to blog about this for awhile. file this under better late than never. whats the best archival format for your important documents in a previous post i suggested parchment might bebut thats impractical. all joking aside the issue is a serious for anyone who is going to spend the better part of their life writing and needs reliable access to this material. james king of adobe ...
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avrei voluto intitolare questo post non si smette mai di imparare ma poi avrei dovuto autochiudermi il thread causa titolo inadeguato... ah no aspetta... questo non a il forum ad ogni modo questo a il concetto principale di questo post. a incredibile linformatica non hai tempo di fermarti un secondo che gia ti accorgi che quello che hai fatto fino a ieri a superato oggi ma torniamo a noi sono curi...
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docbook tags books documentation docbook reference......
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so as part of my work with the fedora documentation team ive started playing around with publican. for those of you who arent aware publican is a documentation tool chain that started out being used internally at red hat where it was called documentationdevel and is now being opened up and hosted by fedora. i wont bore you with all the details yet but needless to say it makes it easy to get starte...
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digg url httpdigg.comsoftware50 proprietary programs we all hate and the os alternatives not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy right some like norton ghost are superb tools for anyone to use. but the fact that these tools are proprietary can drive open source fanatics up a wall. its not the price of the software that makes the real difference although its a reason to mi...
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i have recently recommended to a large publishing client that they adopt relax ng as the basis of the formal definitions of their content in preference to w3c xml schema definition language wxs. there are lots of individual bits of information on why relax ng should be preferred all over the web. here is an attempt to condense some of the key information into ten points 1. a better ...
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docbook is an xmlsgml vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software though it is by no means limited to these applications. docbook a un vocabolario xmlsgml particolarmente adatto a descrivere libri e manuali incentrati su hardware e software sebbene non sia limitato esclusivamente a questuso. in altre parole db non a nientaltro che una grammati...
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