2.1. Presentation of the XJBC-Tools

This section describes how to work with DocBook on Unix-like systems like Linux. If you unfortunately are working on some other operating system, you might need to gather and configure the needed tools by yourself or to buy a commercial solution. Similarly, the DocBook-tools only include SGML tools at the time being, no XML.

The DocBook-Tools consist of several packages that work together to edit DocBook SGML files, to convert them into many other formats, and to perform other miscellaneous operations. The output formats include:

• HTML

• TeX and DVI

• PostScript

• RTF

• PDF

• Man pages

• TexInfo

The home page of the DocBook-Tools project is at http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools and the packages themselves can be obtained from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/ or one of its mirrors. Some commercial distributions have adopted the DocBook-Tools and provide them on their CD.