Building the Manual

To generate HTML, PDF or PostScript files out of the source XML, you will need the following:

Here are the procedures to install the required files:

Procedure C.1. Getting the Bluefish manual source files

  1. Login:

    $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bluefish \ 
    	login
  2. Hit enter at the prompt when asked for your password.

  3. Checkout the directory containing the Bluefish documentation:

    $ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bluefish \
    	co bluefish-gtk2/doc

    This will download all the files to your system in the directory bluefish-gtk2/doc/.

Procedure C.2. Getting the Bluefish doc tools

Procedure C.3. Installing docbook-xsl

  1. Install them for your distribution

  2. Put a copy of the unpacked tarball into bluefish-doctools/tools, renaming it xsl.

Procedure C.4. Installing the xslt processors

  1. Install libxslt if needed.

    xsltproc is provided by the libxslt, distributed as part of the GNOME desktop environment and is packaged for most Linux distributions. Fink provides the package for Mac OS X.

  2. Optionally, install fop for your distribution.