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
The command_option is any of several options for the $ publican command itself. For a complete list of actions see Section 2, “Command actions”
$ publican action action_optionsThe 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 2, “Command actions”
$ publican command_option action action_optionsSome 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 2, “Command actions”