Examples
This appendix contains example SGML files and command lines you can
use to convert them from one output format to another. If you have
successfully installed the Documentation Project tools then you should
be able to use these examples directly.
These examples are not exhaustive—they do not contain all the
elements you might want to use, particularly in your document's front
matter. For more examples of DocBook markup you should examine the SGML
source for this and other documents, available in the
CVSup doc collection, or
available online starting at
.
To avoid confusion, these examples use the standard DocBook 3.1 DTD
rather than the FreeBSD extension. They also use the stock stylesheets
distributed by Norm Walsh, rather than any customisations made to those
stylesheets by the FreeBSD Documentation Project. This makes them more
useful as generic DocBook examples.
DocBook book
DocBook book
An Example Book
Your first name
Your surname
foo@example.com
2000
Copyright string here
If your book has an abstract then it should go here.
Preface
Your book may have a preface, in which case it should be placed
here.
My first chapter
This is the first chapter in my book.
My first section
This is the first section in my book.
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DocBook article
DocBook article
An example article
Your first name
Your surname
foo@example.com
2000
Copyright string here
If your article has an abstract then it should go here.
My first section
This is the first section in my article.
My first sub-section
This is the first sub-section in my article.
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Producing formatted output
This section assumes that you have installed the software listed in
the textproc/docproj port, either by hand, or by
using the port. Further, it is assumed that your software is installed
in subdirectories under /usr/local/, and the
directory where binaries have been installed is in your
PATH. Adjust the paths as necessary for your
system.
Using Jade
Converting DocBook to HTML (one large file)
&prompt.user; jade -V nochunks \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalog \
-d /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/html/docbook.dsl \
-t sgml file.sgml > file.html
Specifies the nochunks parameter to the
stylesheets, forcing all output to be written to
STDOUT (using Norm Walsh's stylesheets).
Specifies the catalogs that Jade will need to process.
Three catalogs are required. The first is a catalog that
contains information about the DSSSL stylesheets. The second
contains information about the DocBook DTD. The third contains
information specific to Jade.
Specifies the full path to the DSSSL stylesheet that Jade
will use when processing the document.
Instructs Jade to perform a
transformation from one DTD to another. In
this case, the input is being transformed from the DocBook DTD
to the HTML DTD.
Specifies the file that Jade should process, and redirects
output to the specified .html file.
Converting DocBook to HTML (several small files)
&prompt.user; jade \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalog \
-d /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/html/docbook.dsl \
-t sgml file.sgml
Specifies the catalogs that Jade will need to process.
Three catalogs are required. The first is a catalog that
contains information about the DSSSL stylesheets. The second
contains information about the DocBook DTD. The third contains
information specific to Jade.
Specifies the full path to the DSSSL stylesheet that Jade
will use when processing the document.
Instructs Jade to perform a
transformation from one DTD to another. In
this case, the input is being transformed from the DocBook DTD
to the HTML DTD.
Specifies the file that Jade should process. The
stylesheets determine how the individual HTML files will be
named, and the name of the root
file (i.e., the
one that contains the start of the document.
This example may still only generate one HTML file, depending on
the structure of the document you are processing, and the
stylesheet's rules for splitting output.
Converting DocBook to Postscript
The source SGML file must be converted to a TeX file.
&prompt.user; jade -Vtex-backend \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/catalog \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog \
-c /usr/local/share/sgml/jade/catalog \
-d /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/print/docbook.dsl \
-t tex file.sgml
Customises the stylesheets to use various options
specific to producing output for TeX.
Specifies the catalogs that Jade will need to process. Three
catalogs are required. The first is a catalog that contains
information about the DSSSL stylesheets. The second contains
information about the DocBook DTD. The third contains
information specific to Jade.
Specifies the full path to the DSSSL stylesheet that
Jade will use when processing the document.
Instructs Jade to convert the output to TeX.
The generated .tex file must now be run
through tex, specifying the
&jadetex macro package.
&prompt.user; tex "&jadetex" file.tex
You have to run tex at
least three times. The first run processes the
document, and determines areas of the document which are referenced
from other parts of the document, for use in indexing, and so
on.
Do not be alarmed if you see warning messages such as
LaTeX Warning: Reference `136' on page 5 undefined on input
line 728. at this point.
The second run reprocesses the document now that certain pieces
of information are known (such as the document's page length). This
allows index entries and other cross-references to be fixed
up.
The third pass performs any final cleanup necessary.
The output from this stage will be
file.dvi.
Finally, run dvips to convert the
.dvi file to Postscript.
&prompt.user; dvips -o file.ps file.dvi
Converting DocBook to PDF
The first part of this process is identical to that when
converting DocBook to Postscript, using the same
jade command line ().
When the .tex file has been generated you
run pdfTeX. However, use the &pdfjadetex macro package
instead.
&prompt.user; pdftex "&pdfjadetex" file.tex
Again, run this command three times.
This will generate
file.pdf, which does
not need to be processed any further.