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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 203fe2cadc..0000000000 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,291 +0,0 @@ -<!-- Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Nik Clayton, All rights reserved. - - Redistribution and use in source (SGML DocBook) and 'compiled' forms - (SGML, HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without - modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions - are met: - - 1. Redistributions of source code (SGML DocBook) must retain the above - copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following - disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. - - 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, - converted to PDF, PostScript, RTF and other formats) must reproduce - the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the - following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials - provided with the distribution. - - THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY NIK CLAYTON "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR - IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES - OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE - DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL NIK CLAYTON BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, - INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES - (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR - SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) - HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, - STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN - ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE - POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. - - $FreeBSD$ ---> - -<chapter id="tools"> - <title>Tools</title> - - <para>The FDP uses a number of different software tools to help - manage the FreeBSD documentation, convert it to different output - formats, and so on. You will need to use these tools yourself if - you are to work with the FreeBSD documentation.</para> - - <para>All these tools are available as FreeBSD Ports and Packages, - greatly simplifying the work you have to do to install - them.</para> - - <para>You will need to install these tools before you work through - any of the examples in later chapters. The actual usage of these - tools is covered in later chapters.</para> - - <tip> - <title>Use <filename role="package">textproc/docproj</filename> if possible</title> - - <para>You can save yourself a lot of time if you install the - <filename role="package">textproc/docproj</filename> port. This is a - <emphasis>meta-port</emphasis> which does not contain any software - itself. Instead, it depends on various other ports being installed - correctly. Installing this port <emphasis>should</emphasis> - automatically download and install all of the packages listed in this - chapter that you need.</para> - - <para>One of the packages that you might need is the JadeTeX macro set. - In turn, this macro set requires &tex; to be installed. &tex; is a large - package, and you only need it if you want to produce Postscript or PDF - output.</para> - - <para>To save yourself time and space you must specify whether or not you - want JadeTeX (and therefore &tex;) installed when you install this port. - Either do:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make JADETEX=yes install</userinput></screen> - - <para>or</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make JADETEX=no install</userinput></screen> - - <para>as necessary. Alternatively you may install <filename - role="package">textproc/docproj-jadetex</filename> or <filename - role="package">textproc/docproj-nojadetex</filename>. These slave ports - define the <makevar>JADETEX</makevar> variable for you, therefore they - will install the same suite of applications on your machine. - Note that you can produce only HTML or ASCII - text output if you do not install <application>JadeTeX</application>. - PostScript or PDF output require &tex;.</para> - </tip> - - <sect1 id="tools-mandatory"> - <title>Mandatory tools</title> - - <sect2> - <title>Software</title> - - <para>These programs are required before you can usefully work with the - FreeBSD documentation, and they will allow you to convert the - documentation to HTML, plain text, and RTF formats. They are all - included in <filename role="package">textproc/docproj</filename>.</para> - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><application>SP</application> - (<filename role="package">textproc/sp</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>A suite of applications, including a validating SGML parser, - and an SGML normalizer.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><application>Jade</application> - (<filename role="package">textproc/jade</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>A DSSSL implementation. Used for converting marked up - documents to other formats, including HTML and &tex;.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><application>Tidy</application> - (<filename role="package">www/tidy</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>An HTML 'pretty printer', used to reformat some of the - automatically generated HTML so that it is easier to - follow.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><application>Links</application> - (<filename role="package">www/links</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>A text-mode WWW browser that can also convert - HTML files to plain text.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><application>peps</application> - (<filename role="package">graphics/peps</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>Some of the documentation includes images, some of which are - stored as EPS files. These must be converted to PNG before most - web browsers will display them.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </sect2> - - <sect2> - <title>DTDs and Entities</title> - - <para>These are the DTDs and entity sets used by the FDP. They need to - be installed before you can work with any of the documentation.</para> - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>HTML DTD (<filename role="package">textproc/html</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>HTML is the markup language of choice for the World Wide - Web, and is used throughout the FreeBSD web site.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>DocBook DTD (<filename role="package">textproc/docbook</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>DocBook is designed for marking up technical documentation. - All the FreeBSD documentation is written in DocBook.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>ISO 8879 entities - (<filename role="package">textproc/iso8879</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>19 of the ISO 8879:1986 character entity sets used by many - DTDs. Includes named mathematical symbols, additional - characters in the 'Latin' character set (accents, diacriticals, - and so on), and Greek symbols.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </sect2> - - <sect2> - <title>Stylesheets</title> - - <para>The stylesheets are used when converting and formatting the - documentation for display on screen, printing, and so on.</para> - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Modular DocBook Stylesheets - (<filename role="package">textproc/dsssl-docbook-modular</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>The Modular DocBook Stylesheets are used when converting - documentation marked up in DocBook to other formats, such as - HTML or RTF.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="tools-optional"> - <title>Optional tools</title> - - <para>You do not need to have any of the following installed. However, - you may find it easier to work with the documentation if you do, and - they may give you more flexibility in the output formats that can be - generated.</para> - - <sect2> - <title>Software</title> - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><application>JadeTeX</application> and - <application>teTeX</application> - (<filename role="package">print/jadetex</filename> and - <filename role="package">print/teTeX</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para><application>Jade</application> and - <application>teTeX</application> are used to convert DocBook - documents to DVI, Postscript, and PDF formats. The - <application>JadeTeX</application> macros are needed in order to - do this.</para> - - <para>If you do not intend to convert your documentation to one of - these formats (i.e., HTML, plain text, and RTF are sufficient) - then you do not need to install - <application>JadeTeX</application> and - <application>teTeX</application>. This can be a significant - space and time saver, as <application>teTeX</application> is - over 30MB in size.</para> - - <important> - <para>If you decide to install - <application>JadeTeX</application> and - <application>teTeX</application> then you will need to - configure <application>teTeX</application> after - <application>JadeTeX</application> has been installed. - <filename>print/jadetex/pkg-message</filename> contains - detailed instructions explaining what you need to do.</para> - </important> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><application>Emacs</application> or - <application>XEmacs</application> - (<filename role="package">editors/emacs</filename> or - <filename role="package">editors/xemacs</filename>)</term> - - <listitem> - <para>Both these editors include a special mode for editing - documents marked up according to an SGML DTD. This mode - includes commands to reduce the amount of typing you need, and - help reduce the possibility of errors.</para> - - <para>You do not need to use them; any text editor can be used to - edit marked up documents. You may find they make you more - efficient.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - <para>If anyone has recommendations for other software that is useful - when manipulating SGML documents, please let &a.doceng; know, so they - can be added to this list.</para> - </sect2> - </sect1> -</chapter> - -<!-- - Local Variables: - mode: sgml - sgml-declaration: "../chapter.decl" - sgml-indent-data: t - sgml-omittag: nil - sgml-always-quote-attributes: t - sgml-parent-document: ("../book.sgml" "part" "chapter") - End: ---> |