1.1 docbook2X

Name

docbook2man, docbook2texi — Convert DocBook to man pages and Texinfo

Synopsis

docbook2man [options] {xml-document}

docbook2texi [options] {xml-document}

Description

Converts the given DocBook XML document into man pages or Texinfo.

These are wrapper scripts for the two-step conversion process in docbook2X. For more information, please see:

• Converting to man pages: db2x_xsltproc, db2x_manxml
• Converting to Texinfo: db2x_xsltproc, db2x_texixml

Options

The available options are essentially the union of the options for db2x_xsltproc and db2x_manxml/db2x_texixml.

Limitations

• Internally there is one long pipeline of programs which your document goes through. If any segment of the pipeline fails (even trivially, like from mistyped program options), the resulting errors can be difficult to decipher — in this case, try running the components of docbook2X separately.

Notes

docbook2X should not be confused with the docbook2man and docbook2texi commands that come with the package docbook-utils. Those commands were based on forks of old versions of docbook2X, and it may be reasonably said that they do not work.