Linuxdoc Reference

Linuxdoc Reference

A introduction to the linuxdoc dtd

Uwe Boumlhme, <uwe@hof.baynet.de>v1.1, 30 January 2000

This article is intended to be a reference for the SGML document type definition linuxdoc, which is coming along with the SGML text formatting system version 1.0. It should also be applicable to future versions which may be found at My Homepage.

1. Making of

• 1.1 Legal stuff
• 1.2 Genesis

2. Introduction

3. A minimalistic document

• 3.1 Step By Step
• 3.2 A Startup Document

4. Document Classes

• 4.1 Article Tag
• 4.2 Report Tag
• 4.3 Book Tag
• 4.4 Letter Tag
• 4.5 Telefax Tag
• 4.6 Slides Tag
• 4.7 Note Tag
• 4.8 Manual Page Tag

5. Inlines

6. Sectioning

7. Paragraphs

• 7.1 Normal Paragraph
• 7.2 List-like Paragraphs
• 7.3 Figures and Tables
• 7.4 Tabular Tag
• 7.5 Mathematical Paragraph
• 7.6 Theorem Paragraph
• 7.7 Code and verbatim Paragraphs

8. Inline Tags

• 8.1 Emphasizes
• 8.2 Short-quote Tag
• 8.3 Formula Tag
• 8.4 External Tag

9. Mathematical Formulas

• 9.1 Fraction Tag
• 9.2 Product, Integral and Summation Tag
• 9.3 Limited Tag
• 9.4 Array Tag
• 9.5 Root Tag
• 9.6 Figure Tag
• 9.7 Realfont Tag
• 9.8 Other Mathematical Tags

10. Labels and References

• 10.1 Label Tag
• 10.2 Reference Tag
• 10.3 Page reference Tag
• 10.4 Url Tag
• 10.5 Htmlurl Tag
• 10.6 Cite Tag
• 10.7 Ncite Tag

11. Indices

• 11.1 Including a index

12. Literate Programming

13. Reference

Appendix

14. Named Symbols

• 14.1 Named Characters
• 14.2 Named Whitespaces

15. Mathematical Figures

16. Linuxdoc dtd Source

1. Making of

1.1 Legal stuff

Copyright (c) 1997-2000 by Uwe Boumlhme. This document may be distributed under the terms set forth in the Linux Documentation Project License at LDP. Please contact the authors if you are unable to get the license. This is free documentation. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

This document is not part of

ldp (even if I took their form of license). I'm not yet playing in that league.

1.2 Genesis

This document was born trying to learn more about writing texts on my linux system. The one system looking like suitable to my needs was sgml-tools SGML-Tools Organsation an the linuxdoc dtd.

In 1.1.1.1 $)''? (see section Reference) the overall structure is described nice and easy. Also [''Quick SGML Example, v1.0''? (see section Reference) was helpful, but:

A lot of features are not mentioned.

On the way to learn more about it, I met

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