Re: French & DocBook

[Nils Philippsen <nils fht-esslingen de>]

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Xavier Nicolovici wrote:

> Hi everyone...
> 
> I'm curently translating the GNOME user's guide in french, and, as I'm new with
> DocBooc, I have a little problem:
> 
> I have a source file written with sgml tags, then I run db2html, and it works
> fine. But, since it is a french document, i would like to have stuff like
> "Table of contents" written in french, like "Table des matières".
> 
> The header of my sgml document is:
> <!DOCTYPE BOOK PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN" []>

This is a FAQ, you might want to try "<book lang=fr>" instead (it must be some
lines below the DTD definition.

Ciao,
Nils
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