Re: Newbie needs help getting started....

On 8/16/07, Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote: > I volunteered to help with documenting an extension still in cvs. Cool. New blood is always welcomed! :D > I've loaded and fiddled with XML Copy Editor. However, it doesn't like > DocBook's language. Fusses about errors. I've tried to find a good DocBook > editor; but, it appears that most of the tools are Linux. Need a recommendation > for a Windows DocBook editor. Thats... weird. Most editors I know of are windows based (with the exception of vim and emacs of cause). See; http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#editors > Next, I'd like to be able to see the html results. Firefox did have DocBook > add-on; but, it's obsolete for new Firefox versions. What can I use to view the > rendered version of my work without making a big deal out of it? On windows? I don't know. You probably need 'cygwin' and all sorts of weird tools. On *nix: ./configure && make part/the-id-you-want-to-see I.e. if you are editing the strpos() sources, which has the xml:id "function.strpos": ./configure && make part/function.strpos Note; you'll need GNU make for the "part/" target to work properly. -Hannes