We use the DocBook DTD, which is widely used. Most shrink-wrapped distributions seem to be broken in one way or another; thanks to heroic efforts by Sven Panne and Manuel Chakravarty, we now support most of them, plus properly installed versions.
Instructions on installing and configuring the DocBook tools follow.
If you're using a system that can handle RedHat RPM packages, you can probably use the Cygnus DocBook tools, which is the most shrink-wrapped SGML suite that we could find. You need all the RPMs except for psgml (i.e. docbook, jade, jadetex, sgmlcommon and stylesheets). Note that most of these RPMs are architecture neutral, so are likely to be found in a noarch directory. The SuSE RPMs also work; the RedHat ones don't in RedHat 6.2 (7.0 and later should be OK), but they are easy to fix: just make a symlink from /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/lib/dblib.dsl to /usr/lib/sgml/lib/dblib.dsl.
On FreeBSD systems, the easiest way to get DocBook up and running is to install it from the ports tree or a pre-compiled package (packages are available from your local FreeBSD mirror site).
To use the ports tree, do this:
$ cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj
$ make install |
It's a good idea to use Norman Walsh's installation notes as a guide. You should get version 3.1 of DocBook, and note that his file test.sgm won't work, as it needs version 3.0. You should unpack Jade into \Jade, along with the entities, DocBook into \docbook, and the DocBook stylesheets into \docbook\stylesheets (so they actually end up in \docbook\stylesheets\docbook).
Install OpenJade (Windows binaries are available as well as sources). If you want DVI, PS, or PDF then install JadeTeX from the dsssl subdirectory. (If you get the error:
! LaTeX Error: Unknown option implicit=false' for package hyperref'. |
Make links from virtex to jadetex and pdfvirtex to pdfjadetex (otherwise DVI, PostScript and PDF output will not work). Copy dsssl/*.{dtd,dsl} and catalog to /usr/[local/]lib/sgml.
Get a Zip of DocBook and install the contents in /usr/[local/]/lib/sgml.
Get the DocBook stylesheets and install in /usr/[local/]lib/sgml/stylesheets (thereby creating a subdirectory docbook). For indexing, copy or link collateindex.pl from the DocBook stylesheets archive in bin into a directory on your PATH.
Download the ISO entities into /usr/[local/]lib/sgml.
Once the DocBook tools are installed, the configure script will detect them and set up the build system accordingly. If you have a system that isn't supported, let us know, and we'll try to help.
If you install from source, you'll get a pile of warnings of the form
DTDDECL catalog entries are not supported |