Superb documentation

[Lowell Gilbert]

iqgrande at gmail.com (Anthony Michael Agelastos) writes:

> I've been a long-time user of FreeBSD partially due to the superb
> documentation it provides.  Anyways, I am curious about how this
> documentation is built.  I am a n00b when it comes to this sort of
> thing, but it appears that you use DocBook and some style sheets to
> auto-generate and auto-format the documentation.  I am familiar with
> the concept of DocBook since I use LaTeX but am not even sure where to
> begin even attempting it.  Do you have any recommended pieces of
> software that help in speeding things along?  What software do you use
> to create the final document?  Thank you for your insight into this.

Have you looked at the documentation for building the documentation?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html