{"id":86,"date":"2004-11-15T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","slug":"docbook-and-apple-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/11\/15\/docbook-and-apple-help\/","title":{"rendered":"DocBook and Apple Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key tools I&#8217;ve been using recently is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbook.org\">Docbook<\/a>. Docbook is an xml-schema which can be used to write documentation for things. This can then be converted via the wonders of XSL, XML and XML-FO processors into PDF, HTML or several other formats. I&#8217;ve written all of the documentation for SQLEditor using docbook and it is really handy. Slightly verbose, but really handy.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately at the moment there doesn&#8217;t seem to be an Apple Help stylesheet for docbook. Since one of my targets is Apple Help this is slightly unfortunate, but I suppose in time either I can write one or someone else will. In the meantime, I&#8217;m using the microsoft help stylesheet and altering the results a bit to work with Apple Help.<\/p>\n<p>Docbook is definitely a handy tool for documentation though. I wish I had discovered it earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key tools I&#8217;ve been using recently is Docbook. Docbook is an xml-schema which can be used to write documentation for things. This can then be converted via the wonders of XSL, XML and XML-FO processors into PDF, HTML or several other formats. I&#8217;ve written all of the documentation for SQLEditor using docbook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh","category-writing-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}