Hello, and welcome to the Firebird Documentation Subproject homepage. If you're a Firebird user and looking for documentation, visit http://www.firebirdsql.org/?op=doc (or choose Documentation -> Firebird Documentation Index from the top menu).

If you are interested in how we write and produce our manuals, read on.

Subproject activities

Our goal is to produce a fully cross-linked documentation set for Firebird. We author the docs in DocBook XML format and then render them to HTML and PDF with a combination of tools. For details, you can have a look at our doc writer's manuals - see the links further below.

Do you want to help us on a regular basis, or do you have a one-time contribution to make? We can use all the help we can get, and we are always happy to publish useful documentation or link to it from our website. Firebird is a great product, but it still lacks sufficient documentation!

If you want to contact us, please post a message to the firebird-docs list or email to paul at vinkenoog dot nl.

As from 2005, all our documentation is released under the open-source Public Documentation License.

Latest developments

October 2009: Norman Dunbar has added chapters on gbak and fbmgr to the Commandline Utilities book.
10 July 2009: The Firebird 2.1 Language Reference Update is available!
April 2009: Marius Popa joined us as a documentation translator. Welcome, Marius!
3 January 2009: German translation of the Firebird File and Metadata Security paper, by Daniel Albuschat.

Docwriters' documentation

The links in the HTML and PDF columns point to the different language versions available for each document.

Title	HTML	PDF
Intro to Writing Firebird Docs (conference session)		en
Docbuilding Howto	en es it pt-br	en es it pt-br
Docwriting Guide	en it pt-br	en it pt-br
Using non-Western fonts in your Firebird docs	en	en

Under development

Firebird SQL Reference - currently working on the Firebird 2.1 Language Update Reference
Further improvement of PDF rendering

Future plans

Update & publication of more Using Firebird chapters
Additions to IB+Fb coexistence doc, wrt running IB+Fb simultaneously
Reserved words list + glossary (if still useful after we've published Using Firebird and the Language Reference)

Feedback

If you have any comments or ideas, please share them with us through the firebird-docs list. We appreciate your feedback!

The Firebird Documentation team