DocBook is a Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Document
Type Definition (DTD) that defines a set of textual document markup
tags that work much like the familiar HTML language used on the web.
DocBook is intended for the authoring of books and articles. As
such, it provides tags specifically designed to describe books
and articles. For instance, the <book>
and <article>
DocBook tags are used to create books and articles. Within these
documents, the <chapter>,
<sect1>, and <para>
tags are used. DocBook SGML files are stored in text files with a sgml
or gml suffix.
When processed, a single DocBook SGML file can
output html, pdf, ps,
txt and other formats for both
online and printed publication. The processing is governed by
stylesheets that can automatically generate a table of contents,
page numbering, chapter & section numbering, and other
features.
DocBook is also designed for authoring unix man pages by writing
<refentry> documents. If you don't know what a man page is,
try the command man man on your terminal.
Here are brief descriptions of the packages we will work with in the next sections:
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