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Building books with variables in them
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- Subject: DOCBOOK: Building books with variables in them
- From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns dot aus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:32:01 +0900
Hi,
I have just got started with docbook, and I am building a pair of books for
Ethereal. In the longer term, I envision using DocBook for all my
documentation, including my Samba course etc.
I am using the RH Linux 6.2 tools.
I want to be able to do the following:
1. pass parameters in from the command line so I can change things like
the latest version through a command line switch
Can I do this?
2. Graphics look better on the printed page if they are scaled to 50-60
percent, but on a web site they look better as a thumbnail that the
user clicks on to get the full image.
How can I arrange it so I get different things happening with HTML vs
PDF?
3. Depending on who the documentation is for, I want different cover pages,
headers and footers, etc.
How can I arrange to do all this?
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba