DAPS (DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite) is an open-source authoring and publishing environment for DocBook-XML. It is command-line oriented and can be used on Linux operating systems. It consists of integrated tools that support technical writers in the editing, translation and publishing process of their XML documents.
Currently, DAPS supports only DocBook 4.x. Support for DocBook 5.x is planned.
This guide is intended for users you want to make efficient use of DocBook-XML for editing and publishing their documentation, be it documentation sets, individual books, or articles. Key knowledge of XML and DocBook is expected, as well as key knowlegde of using the Bash Shell (or command line interfaces in general).
This guide contains links to additional documentation resources. The following manuals are vailable for DAPS:
We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this guide and the other documentation included with the DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite.
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:
/etc/passwd: directory names and filenames
placeholder: replace
placeholder with the actual value
PATH: the environment variable PATH
ls, --help: commands, options, and
parameters
user: users or groups
Alt, Alt+F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as on a keyboard
, +: menu items, buttons
Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a chapter in another manual.
This documentation is written in DocBook (see http://www.docbook.org) and edited and generated with the open-source tools provided by the DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite. The XML source files were validated by xmllint, processed by xsltproc, and converted into XSL-FO using the DocBook stylesheets.
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