On 4/23/05, Edward Hume <edhume@...155...> wrote:
Just what does one do to view a docbook module? I just looked at your basic tutorial. It is marvelous. I wish I had had it when I was starting out with Inkscape.
The Basic tutorial in SVG is in Inkscape since version 0.37 :) It's been available in the Help menu all this time.
I would like to see the whole tutorial in docbook, which looks to be interactive.
If you can't work with CVS, just download this:
http://inkscape.org/doc/doc-xslt.zip
It's the DocBook source of the basic tutorial. Use that as a sample if you want to convert other tutorials from SVG to DocBook (they are now in share/tutorials/*.svg).
Docbook doesn't look to be an app, but a DTD. What does one do to make it intellible? Use a browser? If so, how? (I'm using Firefox on WinXP.) Is there a reader app?
No, DocBook is not "interactive" nor an "application". It's just a simple semantic format, similar to HTML but a bit more complex. You can edit it in any text editor. I think there are special DocBook editors but I know nothing about them. I could give you a link to an online reference on DocBook but you really don't need it, because the full DocBook has hundreds of tags most of which you don't need. Just use the basic/tutorial-basic.xml from the above zip file as a template, it's really very simple.