01-14-2016
Heya
Well, working with the stuff from the book, i dont think that this is the first thing to do for you.
You might want to search the book index for 'IFS' and 'do/while loop' to read files.
If there's a chapter about AWK, then that might be interesting as well.
In my consideration, that (awk) would be advanced, while the 'IFS while loop' would be basic/intermediate (for you).
hth
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GJOTS2DOCBOOK(1) General Commands Manual GJOTS2DOCBOOK(1)
NAME
gjots2docbook - Convert a gjotsfile to DOCBOOK (on stdout)
SYNOPSIS
gjots2docbook -a|-b [ -e ] [ -P ] [ -p ] [ gjotsfile ]
DESCRIPTION
gjots2docbook converts a gjotsfile into DOCBOOK XML.
gjots2docbook uses awk(1) to perform the conversion.
gjots2docbook does not create them so the first element in the file should contain any <bookinfo> or <artheader> element. Similarly, <bib-
liographic> elements are not created. In fact the output is very simplistic with item titles in the gjotsfile being converted to chapter or
section headings in DOCBOOK. There is no reason why your gjotsfile should not contain valid DOCBOOK XML - and that is why the -e and -p op-
tions are provided.
If the file does not start with <?xml ...> then appropriate lines will be added as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE doc_type PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN">
If properly installed, the docbook utilities can then be used to create HTML, man, ps, pdf etc files eg:
gjots2docbook -b ~/.gjotsfile >gjotsfile.xml
docbook2pdf gjotsfile.xml
It may be necessary to fine-tune the docbook formatting to access all features.
OPTIONS
-a makes a DOCBOOK article
-b makes a DOCBOOK book
-e don't encode special characters eg < -> <
-p don't change blank lines to </para><para> markers
-P first section is a preface rather than a chapter (book only)
AUTHOR
Written by Bob Hepple <bhepple@freeshell.org>
http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002 Robert Hepple
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PAR-
TICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
gjots(1), gjots2html(1), docbook2gjots(1)
GJOTS2DOCBOOK(1)