source: pst/sgml/docbook-utils.xml@ 9f12e36

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<sect1 id="docbook-utils" xreflabel="DocBook-utils-&docbook-utils-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="docbook-utils.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>DocBook-utils-&docbook-utils-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="docbook-utils">
    <primary sortas="a-DocBook-utils">DocBook-utils</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to DocBook-utils</title>

    <para>The <application>DocBook-utils</application> package is a collection
    of utility scripts used to convert and analyze SGML documents in general,
    and DocBook files in particular. The scripts are used to convert from
    DocBook or other SGML formats into <quote>classical</quote> file formats
    like HTML, man, info, RTF and many more. There's also a utility to compare
    two SGML files and only display the differences in markup. This is useful
    for comparing documents prepared for different languages.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&docbook-utils-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&docbook-utils-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &docbook-utils-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &docbook-utils-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &docbook-utils-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &docbook-utils-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">DocBook-utils Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="openjade"/>,
    <xref linkend="docbook-dsssl"/> and
    <xref linkend="sgml-dtd-3"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Runtime Dependencies Only)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="jadetex"/> (for conversion to DVI, PS and PDF),
    <xref linkend="perl-sgmlspm"/> (for conversion to man and texinfo), and
    <xref linkend="lynx"/> or <xref linkend="Links"/> or <xref linkend="w3m"/>
    (for conversion to ASCII text)</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/docbook-utils"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of DocBook-utils</title>

    <!-- This shouldn't be required any longer as the OpenSP catalog stuff
         was removed from BLFS two revisions ago.

    <note>
      <para>Earlier versions of the BLFS <application>OpenSP</application>
      instructions installed a catalog containing an SGMLDECL
      <filename>unicode.sd</filename> declaration into the system SGML
      catalogs. This declaration causes some of the
      <application>OpenJade</application> programs to fail occasionally.
      You'll need to remove these catalog definitions if they exist, or
      the package build will fail. The following command can determine if
      you need to remove these catalog definitions:</para>

<screen><userinput>grep "OpenSP-1.5.1" /etc/sgml/catalog</userinput></screen>

      <para>If anything was returned, run the following command as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to remove the
      catalog definitions:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>sed -i.orig \
    -e "/CATALOG \/etc\/sgml\/OpenSP-1.5.1.cat/d" \
    /etc/sgml/catalog \
    /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat</userinput></screen>

    </note>

    -->

    <para>Install <application>DocBook-utils</application> by running the
    following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's:/html::' doc/HTML/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>Many packages use an alternate name for the
    <application>DocBook-utils</application> scripts. If you wish to create
    these alternate names, use the following command:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>for doctype in html ps dvi man pdf rtf tex texi txt
do
    ln -s docbook2$doctype /usr/bin/db2$doctype
done</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>The <command>jw</command> script uses the <command>which</command>
      command to locate required utilities. You must install
      <xref linkend="which"/> before attempting to use any of the
      <application>DocBook-utils</application> programs.</para>
    </note>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>sed -i 's:/html::' doc/HTML/Makefile.in</command>:
    This command changes the installation directory of the HTML documents.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Symlinks</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>docbook2dvi, docbook2html, docbook2man, docbook2pdf, docbook2ps,
        docbook2rtf, docbook2tex, docbook2texi, docbook2txt, jw, and
        sgmldiff</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/docbook-utils-&docbook-utils-version; and
        /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-&docbook-utils-version;</seg>
        <seg>db2dvi, db2html, db2man, db2pdf, db2ps, db2rtf, db2tex, db2texi,
        and db2txt</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="docbook2">
        <term><command>docbook2*</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>are simple one-line wrapper scripts to <command>jw</command>.
          They are provided as easy-to-remember names used to convert DocBook or
          other SGML files to the respective format.</para>
          <indexterm zone="docbook-utils docbook2">
            <primary sortas="b-docbook2-star">docbook2*</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="db2">
        <term><command>db2*</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>are symlinks pointing at the respectively named
          <command>docbook2*</command> commands, created to satisfy some
          program's use of these names.</para>
          <indexterm zone="docbook-utils db2">
            <primary sortas="g-db2-star">db2*</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="jw">
        <term><command>jw</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a script used to convert DocBook or other SGML files to various
          output formats. It hides most of <application>OpenJade</application>'s
          complexity and adds comfortable features.</para>
          <indexterm zone="docbook-utils jw">
            <primary sortas="b-jw">jw</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="sgmldiff">
        <term><command>sgmldiff</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to compare two SGML files and only return the differences
          in the markup. This is especially useful to compare files that should be
          identical except for language differences in the content.</para>
          <indexterm zone="docbook-utils sgmldiff">
            <primary sortas="b-sgmldiff">sgmldiff</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>