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Re: [docbook] First Attempt at Writing a Manual Not Going Well
- From: Robert McIlvride <robert at cogent dot ca>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:14:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: [docbook] First Attempt at Writing a Manual Not Going Well
- Organization: Cogent Real-Time Systems, Inc.
- References: <20030417104745.A31249@zot.ociw.edu>
Hi Brian,
> (Not really DocBook) Where can I learn about ENTITY? Can I
> use it as a sort of macro system for things I don't want to
> type fifteen times? Chapter 2 of O'Reilly's DocBook is, again,
> incomprehensible. All it does is give a link to some useless
> document at oasis-open.org.
I feel your pain. Here's our attempt to explain/understand entities:
http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-entities.html
Hang in there. It's well worth the steep learning curve.
Cheerio!
Bob
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Robert McIlvride (robert at cogent dot ca)
Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)
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