Documentation newbie; SGML how-to?

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Nathan Vidican <nvidican at wmptl.com> writes:

> Herein lies the new challenge for me; what documentation tools are
> everyone using to generate documents the likes of the FreeBSD FAQ and
> Handbook? From what I understand it's SGML, (a new language to me -
> but no fears there), but what authoring tools are out there; what's
> best to use? What's easiest to get along with, and is there a
> collection or package one can utilize for stylesheets, templates, etc?
> Are indexes and HTML output generated by hand, or manually? etc...

The FreeBSD Documentation Primer[1] is a good place to start.  The
tools used are mainly the DocBook DTD and well known sgml tools, all
available via the ports system.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/

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