Re: Creating man pages from Docbook - docbook2man does not generateman pages.

[Hans Deragon <hans at deragon dot biz>]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:04:53PM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote:
>
>
> >  Newbie here with docbook.  Docbook is easy and I get docbook2pdf, 
> >  docbook2ps and docbook2html working marvelously.  However, when I run 
> > docbook2man, only the following two files are created:
> >
> > -rw-r--r--    1 qhander  qhander         0 Nov 17 11:11 manpage.links
> > -rw-r--r--    1 qhander  qhander        27 Nov 17 11:11 manpage.refs
> >
> >  There is no real man page created.  I search for the web for some HowTos, 
> >  but no success.  What is missing to generate man pages?
>
>
> Perhaps you don't have any <refentry> elements?
>
> Tim.
> */

Thanks for the tip, but could you point me to a howto for creating man pages 
with docbook?  Is it actually possible from a same docbook xml to create man 
pages and a normal pdf document?  Or must I have one special docbook for man 
pages and another one for the other formats?  Ideally, I want to be able to 
generate a nice PDF manual and a man page from the same source, without having 
to duplicate text.


Sincerely,
Hans Deragon
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