db2x_texixml(1)                    docbook2X                   db2x_texixml(1)



NAME
       db2x_texixml - Make Texinfo files from Texi-XML

SYNOPSIS
       db2x_texixml [options]... [xml-document]

DESCRIPTION
       db2x_texixml converts a Texi-XML document into one or more Texinfo
       documents.

       If xml-document is not given, then the document to convert comes from
       standard input.

       The filenames of the Texinfo documents are determined by markup in the
       Texi-XML source. (If the filenames are not specified in the markup,
       then db2x_texixml attempts to deduce them from the name of the input
       file. However, the Texi-XML source should specify the filename, because
       it does not work when there are multiple output files or when the Texi-
       XML source comes from standard input.)

OPTIONS
       --encoding=encoding
              Select the character encoding used for the output files.  The
              available encodings are those of iconv(1).  The default encoding
              is us-ascii.

              The XML source may contain characters that are not representable
              in the encoding that you select; in this case the program will
              bomb out during processing, and you should choose another
              encoding.  (This is guaranteed not to happen with any Unicode
              encoding such as UTF-8, but unfortunately not everyone is able
              to process Unicode texts.)

              If you are using GNU's version of iconv(1), you can affix
              //TRANSLIT to the end of the encoding name to attempt
              transliterations of any unconvertible characters in the output.
              Beware, however, that the really inconvertible characters will
              be turned into another of those damned question marks. (Aren't
              you sick of this?)

              The suffix //TRANSLIT applied to a Unicode encoding -- in
              particular, utf-8//TRANSLIT -- means that the output files are
              to remain in Unicode, but markup-level character translations
              using utf8trans are still to be done. So in most cases, an
              English-language document, converted using
              --encoding=utf-8//TRANSLIT will actually end up as a US-ASCII
              document, but any untranslatable characters will remain as UTF-8
              without any warning whatsoever.  (Note: strictly speaking this
              is not "transliteration".)  This method of conversion is a
              compromise over strict --encoding=us-ascii processing, which
              aborts if any untranslatable characters are encountered.

              Note that man pages and Texinfo documents in non-ASCII encodings
              (including UTF-8) may not be portable to older (non-
              internationalized) systems, which is why the default value for
              this option is us-ascii.

              To suppress any automatic character mapping or encoding
              conversion whatsoever, pass the option --encoding=utf-8.

       --list-files
              Write a list of all the output files to standard output, in
              addition to normal processing.

       --output-dir=dir
              Specify the directory where the output files are placed.  The
              default is the current working directory.

              This option is ignored if the output is to be written to
              standard output (triggered by the option --to-stdout).

       --to-stdout
              Write the output to standard output instead of to individual
              files.

              If this option is used even when there are supposed to be
              multiple output documents, then everything is concatenated to
              standard output.  But beware that most other programs will not
              accept this concatenated output.

              This option is incompatible with --list-files, obviously.

       --info Pipe the Texinfo output to makeinfo(1), creating Info files
              directly instead of Texinfo files.

       --plaintext
              Pipe the Texinfo output to makeinfo --no-headers, thereby
              creating plain text files.

       --help Show brief usage information and exit.

       --version
              Show version and exit.

       This program uses certain other programs for its operation.  If they
       are not in their default installed locations, then use the following
       options to set their location:

       --utf8trans-program=path, --utf8trans-map=charmap
              Use the character map charmap with the utf8trans(1) program,
              included with docbook2X, found under path.

       --iconv-program=path
              The location of the iconv(1) program, used for encoding
              conversions.

NOTES
       Texinfo language compatibility.  The Texinfo files generated by
       db2x_texixml sometimes require Texinfo version 4.7 (the latest version)
       to work properly.  In particular:

       o db2x_texixml relies on makeinfo to automatically add punctuation
         after a @ref if it it not already there. Otherwise the hyperlink will
         not work in the Info reader (although makeinfo will not emit any
         error).

       o The new @comma{} command is used for commas (,) occurring inside
         argument lists to Texinfo commands, to disambiguate it from the comma
         used to separate different arguments. The only alternative otherwise
         would be to translate , to .  which is obviously undesirable (but
         earlier docbook2X versions did this).

         If you cannot use version 4.7 of makeinfo, you can still use a sed
         script to perform manually the procedure just outlined.

       Relation of Texi-XML with the XML output format of makeinfo.  The Texi-
       XML format used by docbook2X is different and incompatible with the XML
       format generated by makeinfo(1) with its --xml option.  This situation
       arose partly because the Texi-XML format of docbook2X was designed and
       implemented independently before the appearance of makeinfo's XML
       format.  Also Texi-XML is very much geared towards being machine-
       generated from other XML formats, while there seems to be no non-
       trivial applications of makeinfo's XML format.  So there is no reason
       at this point for docbook2X to adopt makeinfo's XML format in lieu of
       Texi-XML.

BUGS
       o Text wrapping in menus is utterly broken for non-ASCII text.  It is
         probably also broken everywhere else in the output, but that would be
         makeinfo's fault.

       o --list-files might not work correctly with --info. Specifically, when
         the output Info file get too big, makeinfo will decide to split it
         into parts named abc.info-1, abc.info-2, abc.info-3, etc.
         db2x_texixml does not know exactly how many of these files there are,
         though you can just do an ls to find out.

AUTHOR
       Steve Cheng <stevecheng@users.sourceforge.net>.

SEE ALSO
       The docbook2X manual (in Texinfo or HTML format) fully describes how to
       convert DocBook to man pages and Texinfo.

       Up-to-date information about this program can be found at the docbook2X
       Web site <http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/> .

       The input to db2x_texixml is defined by the XML DTD present at
       dtd/Texi-XML in the docbook2X distribution.



docbook2X 0.8.8                  3 March 2007                  db2x_texixml(1)
