DBTOEPUB(1)

💖 DBTOEPUB(1) — the group chat manual 💖

okay bestie, so dbtoepub is a General Commands Manual page and it's lowkey the glow-up machine for your DocBook files. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

dbtoepub — convert DocBook XML to .epub 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dbtoepub [OPTIONS] [DocBook Files]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. options first, then the files you're feeding it 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what does dbtoepub actually do, you ask? it converts DocBook <book> and <article>s into .epub files. that's the whole main character arc. 📚➡️📱

and the .epub format? it's defined by the IDPF over at http://www.idpf.org, and it's literally built out of 3 standards, no cap:

• Open Publication Structure (OPS)
• Open Packaging Format (OPF)
• Open Container Format (OCF)

three icons. a trio. the friend group that makes your ebook work 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c, --css FILE — use FILE for the CSS on the generated XHTML. yes bestie, you get to style it 💖
• -d, --debug — show debugging output. heads up tho: this enables verbose output too, so it's giving yapper mode 🔥
• -f, --font FILE — embed an OTF FILE right into the .epub. font slay, literally 🎀
• -h, --help — display usage info. the classic. the icon 👑
• -o, --output FILE — output the ePub file as FILE. name your baby 🌈
• -s, --stylesheet FILE — use the XSL FILE as a customization layer. the default is:

/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/epub/docbook.xsl

so if you don't pass anything, that's what it's using. periodt 💜

• -v, --verbose — make output verbose. chatty. talkative. telling you everything that's happening 😭

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> — but like, it may be used by others too. sharing is caring fr fr 🫶

and that's the page!! the source/version vibe is 03/02/2009 and the manual tag is DBTOEPUB(1), so yeah, this one's been iconic since way back 💖✨ go forth and convert your books bestie, you got this 🦋