Chapter 3. Publican commands
Publican is a command-line tool. To use Publican on a computer with a Linux operating system, you must either start a terminal emulator program (such as GNOME Terminal or Konsole) or switch to a virtual console. To use Publican on a computer with a Windows operating system, run the cmd
command from the to open a command prompt.
Publican commands take one of the following formats:
$
publican command_option
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$
publican action action_options
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The
action is an action for
Publican to perform, such as creating the XML files for a new document or building a HTML document from a document's XML files. The
action_options apply to the
action, such as specifying the language of a document. For a complete list of actions see
Section B.2, “Command actions”
$
publican command_option action action_options
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Some
command_options affect the output of
actions, for example, whether
Publican should use ANSI colors in its output. For a complete list of actions and options see
Section B.2, “Command actions”