Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Tag: <span>docbook</span>

XML editing with Emacs.

I’ve been using GNU Emacs ever since I started working with the Fedora documentation team years ago. I wouldn’t call myself a power user by any means, but it handles my modest needs very well. Other people may have different preferences, which is fine. (Holy wars to /dev/null please.) In …

Documenting the goodness.

The Fedora Documentation team uses a fantastic tool called Publican for their documentation work. Publican allows people to turn DocBook XML source, a popular and fairly ubiquitous format, into beautiful renderings in HTML, PDF, ASCII, and even RPM. Publican was developed by Jeff Fearn, who works at Red Hat’s office …

Notes on a weekend.

It was a nice weekend even though it was blisteringly hot. Saturday my wife took my daughter out for haircuts and some shopping, so I stayed at home with Trouble (we should probably just get around to changing my son’s name legally) and we played a bit. I also checked …