<!-- -*- sgml -*- -->
<chapter id="index"> <!-- so generated HTML starts here -->
<title>The Selfdocbook itself</title>
<para>The &sdb; is a self-documenting introduction to DocBook DocBook
book. It includes its own DocBook SGML source in the <link
linkend="source">appendix</link>, and so can be used to learn
DocBook by example.</para>
<para>You can get a copy of the &sdb; in various ways; presumably you
already know one of them since you are reading the &sdb; right now.
Here are the choices:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>View it using a web browser, by pointing it to the <ulink
url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbook/selfdocbook.html"
>&sdb; web page</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Grab the <ulink
url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbook.ps">PostScript
version</ulink>, ready to print out.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download the <ulink
url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbook.pdf">PDF
version</ulink>, if that's your preferred format.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Fetch the <ulink
url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbook.tar.gz">DocBook
SGML source</ulink> and build it.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>You can use the &sdb; to learn DocBook by example: if you see
something that you want to know how to do, you can simply flip to
<xref linkend="source"> to find out how it is done.</para>
<para>I learned DocBook from the excellent book <citetitle>DocBook:
The Definitive Guide</citetitle> by O'Reilly Associates,
also <ulink url="http://docbook.org/tdg/html/docbook.html">available
online</ulink>. It is probably a good idea to have a glance
through that in order to get more of an overview than this book
provides.</para>
<para>This &sdb; was built on &builddate;.</para>
</chapter>
<!-- Local Variables: -->
<!-- sgml-indent-step: 1 -->
<!-- sgml-indent-data: 1 -->
<!-- sgml-parent-document: "selfdocbook.sgml" -->
<!-- End: -->