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- <!-- Here's an SGML example file. Format it and print out the source, and
- use it as a model for your own SGML files. As you can see this is a
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- <article>
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- <!-- Title information -->
-
- <title>Quick SGML Example
- <author>Matt Welsh, <tt/mdw@cs.cornell.edu/
- <date>v1.0, 28 March 1994
- <abstract>
- This document is a brief example using the Linuxdoc-SGML DTD.
- </abstract>
-
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- <toc>
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- <!-- Begin the document -->
-
- <sect>Introduction
-
- <p>
- This is an SGML example file using the Linuxdoc-SGML DTD. You can format it
- using the command
- <tscreen><verb>
- $ format -Tnroff | qroff | pg
- </verb></tscreen>
- this will produce plain ASCII. You can also produce LaTeX, and (soon) HTML
- and Texinfo.
-
- <sect>The source
-
- <p>
- Looking at the source for this file will be instructive to show you how
- to use many of the Linuxdoc-SGML constructs. You should also read the
- <em/Linuxdoc-SGML User's Guide/, in the file <tt/guide.sgml/.
-
- The source looks and feels like LaTeX, as you can see. Paragraphs are
- separated by blank lines, macros are enclosed in angle brackets. It's
- quite simple.
-
- <sect>Some examples
-
- <p>
- Here are examples of things that you'll be using in the source. First,
- let's decend into a subsection:
-
- <sect1>This is a subsection
-
- <p>
- As the header says. Note that you need to use the <tt/p/ command to
- start the body of the section, after the <tt/sect1/ command.
- Here's a subsubsection:
-
- <sect2>This is a subsubsection
-
- <p>
- Right. 5 levels of sections are available. Use the commands
- <tt/sect/, <tt/sect1/, <tt/sect2/, <tt/sect3/, and <tt/sect4/ to get them.
- This document uses the <tt>article</> document style, which is
- appropriate for HOWTOs and other docs; the <tt>report</> style (which
- includes the <tt/chapt/ sectioning command) should be used for the LDP docs.
-
- <sect1>Example text
-
- <p>
- All right, so you're typing along, and you want to show some example code,
- or example I/O with a program, whatever. Use the <tt/code/ or <tt/verb/
- ``environments'' for this, wrapped in a <tt/tscreen/ environment, as so:
- <tscreen><verb>
- This is an example verb environment.
- </verb></tscreen>
- As well as:
- <tscreen><code>
- This is an example code environment.
- </code></tscreen>
- The <tt/tscreen/ environment just sets the font to small type and
- indents it nicely. It's not required for using <tt/verb/ or <tt/code/,
- but I suggest that you do.
-
- The <em/Linuxdoc-SGML User's Guide/ explains what special characters you
- can and can't use in the <tt/verb/ and <tt/code/ environments.
-
- <sect1><heading><label id="test-ref">Cross references</>
-
- <p>
- What about cross-references? This section has been marked with the
- <tt>label</> command; using <tt>ref</> will provide a cross reference,
- as in ``See Section <ref id="test-ref">'' for more.
-
- Right now cross-references don't work in the <tt/nroff/ translation for
- plain ASCII.
-
- <sect1>Using fonts
-
- <p>
- You want fonts, we got fonts. Of course these won't show up in the
- plain ASCII text, but they all map into the various output formats:
- <bf/boldface/, <em/emphasis/, <sf/sans serif/, <sl/slanted/,
- <tt/typewriter/, and <it/italics/.
-
- <sect1>Lists
-
- <p>
- Lists are easy as well. Just use the <tt/itemize/ element with the
- <tt/item/ commands, seen here:
- <itemize>
- <item> This is a list.
- <item> Nothing exciting about that.
- <itemize>
- <item> Multiple levels are supported as well.
- <item> Again, that's no surprise.
- </itemize>
- <enum>
- <item> Enumerated lists using <tt>enum</> also work.
- <item> Description environments using <tt>descrip</> along
- with <tt>tag</> are also available, as seen here.
- </enum>
- <descrip>
- <tag/First item./ Here's one item.
- <tag/Second item./ Here's another.
- <tag/Third item./ Can we go for three?
- </descrip>
- <item> A final item to top it all off.
- </itemize>
-
- This is just about everything that you need to get started with
- writing SGML docs using the <tt/linuxdoc-sgml/ DTD. Please let me know
- if you think something should be changed or added to this document.
-
- </article>
-