[H-GEN] DocBook Howto software

[Harry Phillips]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 18:53 +1000, Greg Black wrote:

> > Is Lyx like a GUI front end to TeX? Is it hard to learn? Is the learning
> > curve as steep as Linux? Do you know of any good beginner tutorials?
> 
> Taking the above in order: yes; dunno; dunno (but I don't
> consider Unix-style systems to be hard to learn); nope.  But, as
> always, Google is your friend.
> 

Thanks, I fired up Lyx and it only need the "Edit / Reconfigure" to be
able to do everything I want it to.

I was able to import a LinuxDoc SGML file to use as a template. I have
just been deleting the other authors text and substituting my own. I
just hope there is not hidden meta data :)

> > 
> > You know the ones I mean, what do they use to do that, they sure would
> > not do them by hand, that would be a nightmare.
> 
> Dunno about "them", but if all I'm doing is creating simple HTML
> documentation as described above, I do it by hand with Emacs.
> The only situation where I'd consider something complex is if I
> wanted various output formats, e.g., HTML, PDF, PostScript.
> 

It was only after you mentioned providing the doco in different formats
that I decided that I would. I could create it in HTML using vim or
Bluefish but since it will end up in multipage and one page HTML and PDF
format I have started using Lyx.

I love Lyx, it is is how Word Processors should be used for long
documents. Use a template, it specify's how the Section heading should
look, how the code quotes should look etc etc, then when you want that
look just select it.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips