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<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 <application>TeX</application>.</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 normaliser.</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>
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