References

• SGML in general

  • Cover's page

  • A Gentle Introduction to SGML by the TEI people. Not very practical, IMHO.

  • The non-FAQ[1]

• XML in general

  • Official XML

  • Cover's XML page

  • XML FAQ

• DocBook

  • Official DocBook

  • Debian documentation (the link will work only if you installed the package "docbook-doc")

  • Modular DocBook Stylesheets

  • FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer is a nice introduction to SGML and DocBook

  • Simplified DocBook, a version of DocBook with less elements to learn

  • Different customizations or extensions to DocBook

    • onShore's custom stylesheets are in a unofficial Debian package, "onshore-sgml". To get it, add deb http://cafe.onshore.com/debian local/ to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

    • Norman Walsh puts online all the stuff needed to manage his Web site.

    • FreeBSD has DocBook customizations, too.

• LinuxDoc

  • Matt Welsh's SGML-Tools User's Guide

• Other operating systems: this section will list documents similar to this HOWTO (I mean practical documents) for operating systems other than Debian.

  • Microsoft Windows NT

  • RedHat users of DocBook should probably see the Cygnus tools.

  • For FreeBSD, if you want to use DocBook, see their FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors, specially its list of mandatory tools.

  • SuSE's has some tools to process DocBook documents easily.

  • It is not operating system-specific but O'Reilly has a nice documentation about their publishing system.

Interesting books