DocBook in OS X?

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DocBook in OS X?

Has anyone experience in running DocBook under OS X? The DocBook Wiki describes a Fink package, but the most recent reference I noted was from 2003 and several of the needed packages were described as unstable.

Is anyone running DocBook on OS X today?

Thanks,
Mark

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 28, 2007 1:03 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 29, 2007 1:44 AM in response to chollapete

Yes !

Docbook work fine under Mac OS X.

I use it to wrote books.
But I did not use a fink or MacPort install. I prefer download the official tarball form sourceforge (the lastest version is 1.73.2).
I use oXygen as editor and XEP as renderer. You can use other editor (emacs with some extension is great to) and FOP as renderer.

Feel free to ask me more question if you need.

Jacques

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chollapete Author

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Oct 29, 2007 4:25 AM in response to Jacques Foucry

Thanks, Jacques. I'll be getting back to you, I'm sure, because I've never downloaded a source code tarball, compiled it and run it. I hope you won't mind handholding me through the process. 🙂 Thanks for your help.

Yes, I'm writing a book that I want to publish in both HTML and PDF forms. It's going to be a image rich book about home and building construction. Not my content, someone else's content. I'm just the scribe. 😉

Mark

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chollapete Author

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Oct 29, 2007 5:01 AM in response to Jacques Foucry

P.S. Jacques--May I contact you directly through the email address listed in you profile with further questions? Thanks, Mark

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Oct 30, 2007 7:54 AM in response to chollapete

Chollapete,

Sure you can contact me by email.

If you want to see what I did with docbook on my Mac, you can download my sample chapter from <http://www.foucry.net/Redaction/service/assets/ChapitreDemo.pdf>.

Sorry, it's in french.

Jacques

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Houbi

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Nov 15, 2007 11:56 AM in response to Jacques Foucry

I'd also like some more information on the process. I've tried using the xsltproc processor without any success in transforming a pre-formed DocBook into PDF. I'll look into oXygen and XEP, but if I could get the DocBook XML files into some form that I could use with LaTeX that would be great. Cheers.

Houbi

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Nov 25, 2007 8:06 AM in response to chollapete

I write DocBook XML 5.x on Mac OS X (10.4). For complete details see http://www.working-software.com/node/18

I write in Emacs (native), with James Clark's nXML mode (download). I use xsltproc (native) to generate HTML, xsltproc + Apache-FOP (download) for PDF. I download my stylesheets and transforms from SourceForge.

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Bill Scott

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Nov 25, 2007 8:18 AM in response to Jacques Foucry

Jacques,

Cela semble très bon et j'ai oublié plus de français que j'apprenais jamais .

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