[TriLUG] docbook & help guides

[John Beimler]

Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> hi all-
> 
> i am in the process of setting up some help documents for my lab, and 
> think that formatting them similar to the linux help docs might be the 
> best way. i've briefly read up and see that i need to use 'docbook' (i 
> was going to choose XML).
> 
We use Wiki for a lot of  our one of documentation, so when we need to 
go more formal, we use the Wiki Text to DocBook convertor (Wt2Db) found 
here: http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/Wt2Db

Saves a lot of time, and steers clear of having to remember all your tag 
  soup -- which isn't terribly hard, but can be frustrating.

Our sysadmin has been using AsciiDoc to create his documentation, and it 
will also output DocBook: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/


Peace.

john