Quick question about handbook template

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Feb 5 16:05:09 UTC 2016


On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Paweł Wierzbicki wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I just wanted to ask, if the "FreeDSD Handbook" is generated using some
> sort of a template or is it written by hand?

The question is not quite clear.  The Handbook and other FreeBSD 
documents are written by hand in DocBook XML, then output formats like 
HTML and PDF are rendered from the sources.

> I ask, because I want to make similar, but much smaller handbook, and I'm
> looking for something I could use.

The FreeBSD documentation system is described here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/


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